Mind mapping is only one flavor of visual thinking. Here’s a challenge to “think visual” – to engage in out-of-the-box thinking to further your career and your life, using more of the tools at your disposal.

Chris Griffiths, the CEO of ThinkBuzan, has written a new book called GRASP the Solution: How to Find the Best Answers to Everyday Challenges that provides a practical framework for increasing your creative output and tackling the challenges you face. It will be officially published on October 19th, but ThinkBuzan has agreed to provide Mind Mapping Insiders with an exclusive preview of the preface and first chapter of this valuable new book.

Mind mapping enhances three types of thinking that are critical to the creative process, according to ThinkBuzan CEO Chris Griffiths in his new book.

One of the world’s most popular brainstorming techniques is SCAMPER. I have assembled the world’s largest SCAMPER mind map to help you with your next creative challenge.

Why be creative in your work? The benefits, outlined in a mind map, may surprise you.

Mind mapping software is uniquely designed to help executives handle the demands of today’s workplace, according to the results of a new survey.

To be creative, we must get good at deconstructing challenges and situations into their elements. Fortunately, mind mapping is up to the task.

Mind mapping has a definite impact on human potential. It helps us to see new possibilities, develop bigger ideas, to reach farther and accomplish more, according to the world’s leading mind mapping experts.

For people the world over, the Gordian Knot represents the difficult, the intractable and often the insolvable problem. Today’s systemic business problems are the modern-day equivalent of the Gordian Knot, and visual thinking is the powerful sword that we can use to cut through complexity and develop innovative solutions to them.

What do you do when you run out of ideas when you’re mind mapping? One way is to employ a simple questioning technique called “5Ws and H.”