My only post-midnight thought is that perhaps more “corporate culture” adaptions would occur if more MindManager advocates within corporations got in the habit of sending MindManager Maps instead of word processed memor and reports whenever possible.

The Reader makes this easy to do. And, once recipients got used to the ease of reading, this “personal secret weapon” could soon become a “corporate secret weapon.”

However, perhaps an unspoken fear is that the very clarity of thinking that MindManager encourages will unmask messages containing poor reasoning and a lack of clarity!

That is a good point you’re making. “The very clarity of thinking” may indeeed reveal some weaker lines of argumentation and poor reasoning. While this may urge people to think twice before they send out a MindMap (and literally allow others an inside look into their mind!), I also observe the opposite effect: The very format of a MindManager map can sometimes provide a “thought structure” that would otherwise be lacking. In fact, MindManager maps alleviate the fear of the “blank page”. Other than MS Word, which requires the author to dissect a topic in complete sentences (or at least bullets), maps - supported by pulled-in content such as hyperlinks or imported files - are perfectly suited for conveying sketches and ideas in their infancy.

The author quotes Ralph Cordiner, the former chairman of GE: “If you can name for me one great discovery or decision that was made by committee, I will find you the man in that committee who had the lonely insight - while he was shaving or on his way to work, or maybe while the rest of the committee was chattering away - the lonely insight that solved the problem and was the basis for the decision.”