It’s been a couple of months since I last posted, and over the summer a number of things have shifted for me personally and for the team at Visual Meaning. Our vision as a company has always been the same: To...
I posted some thoughts on creativity over on LinkedIn last week – see here. When I ask a typical business audience whether they think of themselves as creative or uncreative, I usually get a 50:50 split. I find...
I was talking to someone over the weekend about Paulo Freire’s influential book from the 1970s, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I read it many years ago, and because it’s written in quite a philosophical /...
I just posted some thoughts on the origin of business jargon over on LinkedIn that you may find interesting. In a nutshell, just because the person with the whiteboard marker happens to be socially dominant, you...
Many thanks to Daniel Bassill for taking the time to share his thoughts on my TED talk on mapping society. If you haven’t watched it, the basic idea is that having an accurate and comprehensive set of visual maps...
“Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style and editing of prose.” – Edward Tufte...
“You make meaning for people by connecting with their experience.” I remember the first time I realised this. John Kotter’s book “Leading Change” had just come out, and there was an example of a procurement guy who...
When people see our conceptual maps for the first time, they often ask “Where do you start?!” It took us a few years to notice that we actually always start in the same place. When we’re trying to figure out the...
Continuing the theme of metaphors in business, here’s the full story of the rocket-dragon-journey-boat. Enjoy! Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)...
The history of employee engagement is littered with inappropriate metaphors. I remember a client once insisting that we structure a big picture about financial services around the metaphor of a nuclear waste processing...
