I find it intriguing as well as amusing to read that the Buzan Organisation has claimed that "... 250 million people already 'mindmap'..."
on their newly created ThinkBuzan website.
Is this a fact or pure hyperbole? Or, did they just pluck the figure from the sky or is it an audited figure?
Likewise, in the corporate website of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), which offers professional programs to the corporate world as well as to the general public, I have noted that Tony Buzan has claimed that he is
"the owner of the world's highest Creativity IQ".
I like to know who is the ranking or rating authority.
Interestingly & also amusingly, Tony Buzan also claimed
"he has been consistently ranked as one of the top international speakers at all levels & to groups from 1-15,000..."
"... rated as the top international lecturer in 15 national & international management associations."
In the first instance, any young kid can tell you that 1 is definitely not a group.
More importantly, I like to know the respective ranking or rating authority in the two instances.
Did the relevant people in SIM bothered to conduct due diligence on the "accolades"?
Hopefully, the relevant people at SIM, being a premier management training institution, are not entrenched in colonial mentality. Layman calls it the 'Ang Moh Factor'.
['Ang Moh' is a widely accepted & used as a simple term to describe a Causasian. You will hear the term in local TV & movie productions, radio shows, & also read it in the magazines or books.
By the way, readers can pop into this AngryAngMo website for elaboration on the term. The website is run by a German expatriate.]
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