The Unlimited Ideas Podcast

One of my great strengths is my ability to come up with ideas. Whilst I appear to do it with ease, there is some method to my creative genius. Coming up with new thought is crucial for innovation and content marketing. You want to create fresh content for your blog, your podcast, your social media […]

How to Have Unlimited Ideas

Unlimited Ideas

If you follow my blog you’ve probably realized I write a lot. At the moment, I’m posting every single day. And my plan is to continue that for the entire year. Yep, 365 days straight… And, when I tell people this I often hear the same reply: But what are you going to write about? […]

Plan Your Year Podcast

In Episode 57 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we share three of our most popular recent blog posts all on the topic of how to plan your year. The first part shares the ten questions I use to plan my year. The second part focuses on creating and sharing your word or theme for the […]

Word for the Year

Geoff McDonald - Word for the Year - Us

One of my strengths and weaknesses is my ability to create ideas at the drop of a hat. And, even without any hats dropping. I’m naturally a divergent thinker which says I’m both creative and likely to go off on a tangent at any time. This means I need to work extra hard to stay […]

Zach Friend – On Message

Zach Friend

Zach Friend, On Message: How a Compelling Narrative Will Make Your Organization Succeed, Turner Publishing, Nashville, 2013. Walk Your Talk Given I’m a designer of messages and information products, I’m willing to admit I’m a hard marker when it comes to judging the design and layout of books. The old proverb ‘don’t judge a book […]

Ten Questions to Plan Your Year

Plan Your Year - Fireworks

What’s the best thing you can do on New Years Day? Apart from recover from last night’s celebrations, you can plan your year ahead. To help you create your best year yet, here are the 10 questions I ask myself each year on New Year’s Day… Review Last Year I always start with a review […]

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. […]

16 Ways to Score Your Next Speaking Gig

16 Ways to Score Your Next Speaking Gig

I’ve been asking a few speakers how they get their gigs. Here’s a general list from their responses of what really works: Past clients – This depends on the opportunity for repeat business, if it’s a conference keynote slot then it may be difficult to gain repeat business every year Clients that book you for […]

Professional Learning Survey Results

How to keep up to date with your professional learning

Recently I ran a survey on Survey Monkey (love their new survey result images – see below). My goal was to find out more about how people learn. In particular, I was looking for insights into how best to shape, position and design Book Rapper for the future. The big idea I wanted to explore […]