Posts Tagged Innovation

Tao of Productivity with PR & productivity expert Steve Rubel

steve-rubel-231x300 For those of you who follow social media & productivity gurus, you may be familiar with Steve Rubel. He is the senior vice president for Edelman Digital (PR agency) and has often been considered a thought leader on PR, Social media and productivity.

Yesterday, I caught this nice interview for the Tao of Productivity series with Steve on the blog, Homepages of Karthick Gopal.

In it, Steve shares, “I have become a huge fan of mindmapping. I use MindManager on my PC, Mac and iPhone to brainstorm ideas and solutions to problems. I like to mind map when I am in the air and use the time for ideation and to catch up on correspondence.

Check out the full interview here.

P.S. I love to map on flights as  well! It’s amazing how separating from land spurs on my own creativity and breakthrough thinking! Where’s your favorite place to get creative?

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Stop Over-Communicating, Start Collaborating: Introducing Mindjet Catalyst

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Is your team the victim of over-communication?

Here are some of the tell-tale signs…

  • Lack of team alignment
  • Duplication of work and effort
  • Multiple file versions – no single source of truth
  • Flooded email inboxes and unanswered questions
  • Longer sales cycles
  • Slower innovations
  • Delayed projects

We’re living in an ‘age of inundation’. Too much communication with too little collaboration… And if you believe the forecasts, it’s only getting worse. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mindjet CEO Scott Raskin in Fortune’s BRAINSTORM TECH: Closing the Innovation Gap

scott-raskin_mindjetHow do you unleash the creativity of your resources in today’s work environment?

Tools like Twitter and other social networking are great methods to generate and exchange ideas, but fail to help you move from idea into a strategy or execution plan.

Mindjet CEO Scott Raskin highlights in Fortune’s BRAINSTORM TECH blog how our work environments have shifted from face-to-face collaboration into a system of distributed over-communication. Too often we’re relying on the wrong technologies to foster and improve team collaboration.

Read more, inside Raskin’s article: Closing the Innovation Gap

And, join the conversation either here or on the Fortune blog. We’d love to hear your thoughts!

Technology isn’t a cure-all for getting employees to talk to each other. In fact, it can be the enemy.

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