Best Books Infographic – 2014

Best Books of 2014

What are the best business books of 2014? A best books infographic is my way of summarizing the best books I’ve read in 2014. What are the best business books you’ve read recently? Each year, I read a lot of books. In 2014, I read 49 books in total. They’re almost all non-fiction and relate […]

Ten Best Books of 2014

Best Books of 2014

If you’d rather listen to this article you can grab our podcast episode here. Our infographic of these best books is here. The Best Books I’ve Read This Year Each year for the past 12 years I’ve aimed to read 50 books. And, every year except one I’ve read at least 40 books. So far […]

Best Books of 2014 – Podcast

Our Topic What are the best books you’ve read in 2014? Each year for the past 12 years I’ve read between 40-50 books a year (except one year when I only read 30+ books). So far this year I’ve read 49 books. And, this sparks the obvious question: which ones are the best books I’ve […]

Presenting Data

Darren Hill

Best ever TED Videos What’s your favorite TED video? Here’s one of my favorites… You may have seen it… It’s been seen over nine million times and it’s listed as one of the TED Classics. It’s by Hans Rosling. It’s called ‘The Best Stats You’ve Ever Seen’. Bold title! I love this TED video because […]

Business Infographic – Icons

Business Infographic - Icon

Promote Your Business How are you presenting yourself and your business? Based on some client requests I’ve started to explore the business one-pager in the form of a business infographic. Previously, I published an infographic resume and a business infographic. Today, here’s a similar and different style of business infographic. Whilst the information in our […]

Unlock the super simple secret to Innovation Work

Innovation Work

Innovation Work Innovation work is now something we all need to perform. Innovation is so fundamental to not just growing a business, but also ensuring it stays relevant and viable. Disruption is potentially all around us and because we have previously been successful is not guarrantee it will continue. It is no longer adequate to […]

Create and Share BIG Ideas

David Christian - TED Talk

The History of the World This Video is rated by TED itself as one of “11 Must-see TED talks”. High praise indeed! It’s by Australian Historian David Christian and it’s dramatically called “The history of our world in 18 minutes”. If you’re interested in BIG history, astronomy, chemistry, physics and biology you’ll love this talk. […]

How to Create Your Business Infographic

Geoff McDonald - Ideas Architect - Business Infographic

Promoting Your Business How do you best present yourself and your business? Not so long ago we relied on printed brochures – the glossier the better. Then along came the web and we all created our own websites as the be-all and end-all of promotional devices. Not so. Social media has arrived and this has […]

Design Stories

Apple - Magic Mouse

The allure of this TED talk by Yves Behar ‘Designing Objects That Tell Stories’ is that it brings together two powerful threads for me: Design is my lifelong passion Stories are my current focus This video is really a showcase of Yves Behar’s design work upto 2008 (The talk was presented February 2008). And, there […]

Two Billion Views on YouTube

Psy Gangham Style

It appears that Gangham Style has broken YouTube! Well, er at least, broken the counter on YouTube. (Source: abc.net.au) [Tweet “How Gangham style broke YouTube #howbigis2billion”] At last count, the official version of the Gangham video performed by South Korea’s Psy, had been seen by over 2.15 billion times. That’s equivalent to one-third of the […]