A good coach can be the difference in winning a championship and being in last place. Take for example the San Francisco Forty Niners. Last year they had a remarkable run, ending their season only one game shy of the Super Bowl. The interesting thing is that make up of Jim Harbaugh’s 2011 Niners was, […]

Your company has a Facebook Page, you’re active on Twitter, and employees are posting status updates about discounts on LinkedIn – Congratulations! You’ve clearly made the jump to social. Everyone understands that becoming a social business, but what about your employees? Did you know that over a third of businesses don’t have any type of an internal social network in place.

Here are 11 super-easy, minimally-disruptive things you can do to amplify your productivity and make working smarter a whole lot more manageable.

Michael Dillon Scott has a very bold face. His eyes are deeply set, his brows are thick and rumpled, and the pronounced divot between his mouth and nose (I looked it up, it’s called a philtrum) gives off the impression that he is constantly on the verge of smiling.

Can I admit something to you? I procrastinated writing this post like you wouldn’t believe. I straightened up my desk. I walked around the office. I got a coffee, then a cookie, then more coffee. I convinced myself that I left my copy of Harvard Business Review in my car so I could go outside. […]

Email, it’s the way the world communicates. With more than an estimated 294 billion emails sent each day, email overload is a growing concern. If you’re like me, from the time you leave the office each night to when you return in the morning, there is something in excess of 60 unread emails sitting in your inbox – a pretty daunting way to start the morning.

Commitment. Only a few other words carry the same weight as that one. When individuals commit to something, they are essentially agreeing to a set of unspoken presidents which is a pretty big deal. Similarly, when teams commit to projects, essentially they are saying that “you can count on us to accomplish what we have […]

Sooooooo...Facebook went public today. Whoopie. Chances are you're already sick of hearing about it so I'll make this quick. For the socially-enabled businesses, this move means business (a.k.a. it just. got. serious.).

Monday our very own CMO, Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, teamed up with Citrix’s GoToMeeting Meeting is Believing – Stories of Innovation series. We’re super excited to be a part of this series as both GoToMeeting and Mindjet are great tools to help teams and individuals reach their full potential.

“Hold on, I have to file this story real quick,” says BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray. Sitting down on the sidewalk on a June evening outside of a Scott Walker volunteer center in Milwaukee, Gray opens her laptop and begins typing. When BuzzFeed’s reporters say “real quick,” they mean it. Less than 15 minutes later, a […]

Did you know that Wikipedia has at least 1.4 million articles totaling over 340 million words. That’s approximately “25 times larger than the next largest English encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica.” No matter how you slice it, that’s an impressive amount of information. What’s really scary is that is the amount of information we’re now producing and collecting is not slowing down anytime soon. While great data can make for a better customer experience, being able to categorize or make sense of it all is a growing concern.

Tips on how to create a collaborative culture within your business organization, which is very essential for today’s business sector.

Mindjet connects both the Vision and Action to create a single application for its business customers.

Read about the best collaboration tools available today and how to implement them for the success of your business among tight competition.

When it comes to any change, it’s never easy. You can have a well thought out plan with the best intentions and still have your initiatives fall flat. Why? This is something that most companies struggle with, particularly when it comes to large-scale initiatives like collaboration. Part of the problem with a collaboration initiative is […]

There’s no doubt that having a strong leader helps elevate a team’s performance. Part coach, part sensei, team leaders are the cornerstones of any successfully organization. Leaders push teams to rise to the challenge. Yet many great leaders have failed. Why? What is it that some leaders have and others do not? The key is strangely simple. Good leaders get the job done, great ones inspire. Being able to create a feeling of being part of something larger is what makes a good leader great.

I recently sat down with a handful of my colleagues here at Mindjet to talk to them about collaboration. The conversation started out as expected (pretty basic) but things took a turn for the interesting when we got into the pain points. It turns out that even though software is helpful for collecting ideas and working across locales, face-to-face conversation is still the preferred method in a lot of instances.

In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams famously dreamed up the babel fish, a "small, yellow, leech-like" creature, "probably the oddest thing in the universe." Feeding on brainwave frequencies, the babelfish telepathically excretes understandable speech; when implanted in the brain through the ear, the babel fish allows its host to instantly understand any form of language.

The influence consumer-based technology has had on the world of business has been called many things over the years. Enterprise 2.0, Business Collaboration, Enterprise Social Networking and the ever-popular Social Business are just a few. Despite these changes, however, our general disposition towards the movement has remained one of brash presumption: how difficult could it […]

In what is surely an effort to increase mobile presence, Facebook announced plans to introduce an online app store earlier this month. Like Apple and Google’s markets, Facebook’s hub will allow users to download both free and paid software applications. For Facebook, this pending super-index of apps could mean an uptick after what many would call a troublesome IPO. For the businesses, it could mean the resurgence of a stifled trend.

What’s the worst that could happen? I know that we’re all guilty of asking ourselves that question. However, when it comes to data visualization, one that’s less-than-ideal could have far greater negative ramifications than you may think.

A lot of these collaboration and enterprise social networking tools run the risk of becoming shelf software – you know the software that never gets used or that quickly falls into disuse. This is not only incredibly frustrating for the teams who invested their time and effort to acquire and use these tools, but also it’s an expensive habit. So how do you make sure your efforts aren’t in vain? It all comes back to culture.

At Mindjet we’ve built our business working with customers who understand the benefits a visual approach, to organizing ideas and information, brings to key business processes. And, because those key processes require effective collaboration to ensure success, we’ve extended our portfolio to include both cloud-based (Mindjet Connect) and on-premise (Mindjet Connect SP) collaboration software, along with mobile integration.

Full disclosure: I’m an ex-softie. I loved working at Microsoft. Some of my fondest memories professionally are from my time there. There are so many wonderful and smart people at Microsoft I will never stop rooting for Microsoft to be successful. Failure & Agile In his article for Vanity Fair, author Kurth Eichenwald takes a […]

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Not everyone agrees on the perfect leadership formula, but here are 5 essential skills every workplace leader needs to have.

If you still haven’t jumped on the agile marketing train, then you, my friend, don’t know what you are missing. While the transition isn’t easy, Ben Franklin once said “when you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”...

As human beings we’ve always been fascinated by images. From the dawn of time, we’ve attempted to record moments or events that we wanted to share with others through the power of visuals. The technical advancements we’ve seen over the last several years has made it possible for more people to share their stories through […]

Would you believe that compensation, while important isn’t the end all be all for employees? That’s what Jeff Haden points out in his Inc. article, 8 Things Your Employees Need Most. Turns out that while getting a bonus is nice, most employees simply yearn for greater involvement in the business. According to Haden, employees want […]

Last night I had the pleasure of presenting at the Seattle Social Media workgroup – an eclectic and lively group of entrepreneurs and social media practitioners. As I was prepping my remarks I reflected on how my PR job has changed from influencing content to publishing content. These days I spend more time reviewing our […]

Getting people to change age old habits is tough, but it’s an important skill managers must learn. For change to be truly successful a series of different variables must go your way. One of the most important variables in attaining successful change is trust. For people to change they have to trust what you’re telling them.

Maybe the popularity of the television show Mad Men will finally kill off the bad idea that business can find one big marketing idea and hit the jackpot. Maybe we love Don Draper because, like Superman, he doesn’t really exist and never did...

With all the talk of productivity, collaboration, efficiency tools, it’s easy to overlook the things sitting right in front of you. It can be easy to forget that despite all the tech talk about collaboration, it all boils down to how well your team interacts. So stop searching for a tool and start taking advantage of your most overlooked asset: your team.

It’s hardly debatable that we live in a technological age, so why do so many employers fail to embrace all the tools we have at our disposal? It might seem prudent to remain leery of change, gently dipping a toe to test the waters while letting the foolhardy jump in with both feet. However, while […]

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Understanding the functions of a job management tool and helping business owners to determine whether it is needed or not in their business.

Time-management isn't all fun and games, but it doesn't have to be boring, either. Here are 5 time-management blogs you should be following.

Not all that long ago, when someone mentioned data visualization images, graphics printed in the USA Today, New York Times or the Economist would instantly come to mind – not any more. Over the last two to three years there has been an explosion in the popularity of data visualization. There’s no question that data visualization is hot right now, but why?

Mindjet blog provides information to readers on how being social can really help businesses tide over struggling times and how they can improve productivity

Adopting agile marketing is a lot like throwing rocks into a pond: it makes a huge splash but the rock also creates far reaching ripples that end up effecting things outside the initial scope. The same can be said about agile marketing, sure there’s the intended change but other departments outside marketing are affected. Today...

Business productivity can be extra tough while you're on the go. Here are five apps to help you through it.

Not long ago, students were routinely told to turn off their electronic devices and put them away before class started. Today, teachers are increasingly prompting students to retrieve and unlock their tablets so class can begin. Technology in the classroom is not a new development, nor a particularly surprising one. What has changed, though, is the degree to which tablets, smart boards, and educational software are seamlessly integrated into lessons and curriculum.

Agile project management can be tough. In this Q&A, Mindjet's Director of Program Management, Don Souza, offers solutions to five top pain points.