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Bookmap: Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
I’ve just finished David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous. From the opening story about the prototype shop stationer Staples uses to design more effective experiences for shoppers to the final coda about the lack of structure in an ephemera shop, Weinberger tells thoughtful stories to outline his ideas, most of which I hadn’t heard before. Weinberger’s [...]
Bookmap: The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
Legend has it this book originated as a seven-page memo outlining mythic structure for Hollywood studios. In the memo, Christopher Vogler interpreted Joseph Cambpell‘s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces“, the book in which “Campbell explores the theory that important myths from around the world which have survived for thousands of years all share a [...]
Bookmap: The Halo Effect… and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Phil Rozenzweig’s book impressed when I first read it by explaining in straightforward terms why “Five Steps…” and “Seven Habits…” type books aren’t enough to ensure success in different contexts. The explanation of the dangers of pseudoscientific approaches to studying performance is recommended to anyone working in organisational design. I also feel all business management [...]
Bookmap: “Sources Of Power: How People Make Decisions” by Gary Klein
Recommended to me by Tony Quinlan, “Sources of Power” chronicles Gary Klein‘s research into naturalistic decision making – how people make decisions in fields where they possess expertise. Cited in Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink“, this is a deeper and more satisfying examination of the subject. It’s full of stories about people who make rapid decisions in [...]
Bookmap: The Minto Pyramid Principle (SCQA)… visually
I had some great feedback from author Mark Earls about the mindmap of his book “Welcome To The Creative Age” which I posted recently. It started me thinking about the importance of visual memory and I wondered if plotting a mindmap of a book’s chapters before reading would help the reader navigate through it. Perhaps [...]
“Welcome to the Creative Age” by Mark Earls – book review
Hugh MacLeod’s recent questions for Mark Earls prompted me to buy Mark’s first book “Welcome To The Creative Age – Bananas, Business and the Death of Marketing” – the book which Hugh says changed his life.If I was expecting to be blown away from the first page I was disappointed. Instead, Mark builds his case [...]
More of "The Halo Effect…"
A trickle of traffic from The Wall Street Journal alerted me that Carol Hymowitz chose “The Halo Effect…” as one of her business books of 2007. I’ve still yet to read “Wikinomics” which she also recommends and I see she also mentions a new book by Patrick Lencioni, author of “The Five Dysfunctions of a [...]
The Halo Effect – are you deluded?
The Halo Effect is a form of cognitive bias which causes us to ascribe positive traits to people we perceive as successful and negative traits to those we don’t. It is also the title of a business book written by Phil Rosenzweig, professor at IMD, which looks at the facts behind some of the most [...]
The Minto Pyramid Principle (SCQA)
Shawn Callahan’s post mentioning a storytelling technique called PREP taught me something simple which I will remember forever. My preferred story structure for presentation, e-mail or blogging was previously S-C-Q-A: Situation, Complication, Question and Answer – also known as The Minto Pyramid Principle. S-C-Q-A helps you write introductions which engage an audience’s attention before you [...]
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