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

Chapters

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.

Martin J. Eppler