#6 Organizing Ideas // Mind-Maps, Structuring, Amazon's Documentation Method

Today we will learn how to organize our thoughts and ideas.
It is important to organize our ideas systematically so that customers, supervisors, and our team members can understand.
The sad thing is that most people don't look carefully at other people's reports.
Therefore, you need organized writings to let them see the important contents even at a glance.

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1. Where does ideas come from?

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2. Digital Garden

: A space to collect and grow (gardening) ideas and thoughts

· process of learning and organizing, but if you open and share it to gather interested people, you can receive feedback and improve it -> accelerate learning

 

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3. How to think and organize ideas

· Problem solution establishment, ideation, goal establishment and the process to achieve goals, reading notes, summary of learned contents, etc.
    - Utilize frameworks such as brainstorming, mind maps, and mandalarts
     ▷ Follow the framework first

1) Mandal-Art: The art of achieving the goal (Manda)

   - Fill in the blanks to organize goals + action plans
   - Structuring + organizing final goals and intermediate goals/action plans in detail

2) Mind-Mapping: according to the way the brain works

    - Topic -> main branch -> divergence

3) Reverse-Brainstorming: inverse concept

: A way to ask a reverse question of the problem you want to solve

     - Used when ideas do not come to mind during the brainstorming stage

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4. Logical Thinking

: To logically convey what you want to say, persuade the other person and elicit the desired response

1) Minto Pyramid

: A method of presenting the conclusion, which is the most curious point from the listener's point of view, and conveying the reasons and grounds in consideration of logical relationships

   - From top to bottom should be an answer to ‘Why so’, and from bottom to top should be an answer to ‘so what’
     ▷ Argument -> Reason(cause) -> Evidence

2) Structuralization

: Organizing the content so that the reader can understand it just at a glance

3) Amazon's Report System

· One Page Report
    - Amazon discourages (prohibits) the use of slides in the form of PT (PPT, Keynote)
    - Write a long document before the meeting and deliver it to the attendees
    - Attendees read and review the document in detail for about 20 minutes after starting the meeting
    - Starts discussion immediately after reading the document (no explanation written in the document)
· 6 Pager
    - Introduction, Goals, Tenets, State of business, Lessons learned, Strategic priorities
· PR
    - Write a press release as if the release preparations were completed in the planning stage
    - Present the end-picture of the product as if explaining it to the customer
    - Plans can be reviewed from the customer's point of view
· FAQ
    - In the planning stage, anticipate questions from customers that may arise in the final stage and arrange them in the form of FAQs.
    - Plans can be reviewed from the customer's point of view

 

 

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