Visipedia
A Visual Encyclopedia for the Workplace
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About The Book
This Visipedia (visual mini encyclopedia) offers a wealth of practical knowledge made visible, accessible, and actionable through the systematic Visual Variation approach. It provides graphic answers to the pressing questions of today and this on four levels:
- Personal questions that will help anyone improve the way they work.
- Interpersonal questions pertaining key challenges in communication and collaboration.
- Institutional questions that deal with the working of organizations and their management.
- Technological and societal questions that address emergent trends and topics such as blockchain, quantum computing, but also issues such as sustainability or the circular economy.
What makes this knowledge compilation unique and particularly valuable is that it not only informs its readers by giving them answers to compelling questions. It also helps them reflect about the respective issues and connect it to their own situation or context. Each graphic explanation can be easily expanded or modified by the readers themselves.
Key Questions of Today Answered through Visual Variations
What’s inside
Clear explanations
Complex topics explained concisely with illuminating illustrations.
A great mix of topics
From business, management, psychology, technology, to ecology.
Stimulating questions
Build on the provided explanations by connecting them with your work.
A short Primer on Visual Variations
The appendix helps you build your own visual knowledge repository.
70 complex topics made clear:
Learning | Facilitation |
Leading | Humor at Work |
Reasoning | Communication Failures |
Synergies | Talk Traps |
Creativity | Presenting |
Complexity | Delegation |
Letting Go | Data Disagreements |
Paradox | Meetings |
Lifelong Learning | Project Management |
Habits | Conflict Resolution |
Strategic Thinking | Strategic Failures |
Envisioning | Risk Management |
Starting | Sales |
Productivity | Business Plans |
Career | Coordination |
Resilience | Trade-offs |
Critical Thinking | Constraints |
Limiting Beliefs | Monsters of Work |
Regret | Inclusion |
Biases | Investment |
Intuition | Change |
Power | Entrepreneur |
Deep Learning | Iteration |
Reframing | Abstraction |
Unlearning | Blockchain |
Reviewing | Quantum Computing |
Asking Questions | Technology Evolution |
Trust | Pragmatism |
Negotiation | Cybersecurity |
Teams of Two | Sustainability |
Relationships | Fake News |
Persuasion | Circular Economy |
Motivation | VUCA |
Feedback | Earth conceptions |
Explaining | Storytelling |
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About the author
Professor Martin J. Eppler, PhD, is a chaired professor of communications management at the School of Management of the University of St. Gallen, one of Europe’s top six business schools. He is a director of the Institute for Media and Communications Management and an advisor and trainer to organizations such as the European Central Bank, the United Nations, Swiss Re, and many others. He is the author of 24 books on visualization, creativity, and analytics and the inventor of numerous visualization techniques. He has been a guest professor at universities in the US, Canada, China, Finland, Peru, and the United Kingdom.
Other books by martin j. eppler
Meet up! Better Meetings through Nudging (Cambridge University Press) - Winner of the getabstract International Book Award
Sketching at Work
Life Design
Creability
How to Talk about Data – Build your Data Fluency – our upcoming Book!
Stay tuned for a new Financial Times Press book from us on how to lead effective data dialogues.