Understanding Mind Maps in a week [antikvár]

FOREWORD BY TONY BUZANlFortune Magazine trumpets from its front cover that brain power is the best way to make a fortune.The South East Asian Economic Review trumpets from its front cover that brain power is 'where it's at' and that the labour shortage puts Asia's economic boom at risk. The first time in history that 'labour' has been used to mean not muscle power, but brain power.Skandia, the multi-national insurance giant based in Stockholm, changed its standard annual report format to include a major supplement entitled Intellectual Capital - an accounting for the 'intellectual power' of its company and its customers.The Brain Trust Charity, an international charity devoted to intelligence, recently declared the 21st century to be the 'Century of the Brain' and the coming millermium to be the 'Millenniimi of the Mind'.In view of the exponentially new information on the brain and its fvmctions, it is essential that we have a thinking tool that allows us to use the brain's extraordinary powers. That thinking tool is the Mind Map.The Mind Map is a multi-dimensional piece of thinking equipment that allows the individual to use all the 'fingers of intelligence' - in other words aU the multiple intelligences. The Mind Map has been described as 'the Swiss army knife for the brain'. Since its first-form discovery in the late 1960s, the Mind Map has been used increasingly by the international commimity. At the time of the first edition of Understanding Mind Maps in a Week, most of the Fortune 500 companies have used this thinking technique with increasing and accelerating frequency. To name just a few of those Mind Mapping: American Express,