A SPLASH MAP FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

This is a snappy pictorial rendition of the ancient classic, 'The Richest Man in Babylon', by George Clason, done in the form of a "splashmap'' by Dilip Mukerjea.

A SPLASH MAP FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

A nice infographic - a work-in-progress rendition by my good buddy Dilip Mukerjea in Mumbai, India - about the power and importance of reading!

A SPLASH MAP FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

This is Dilip Mukerjea's masterful graphic rendition - in the form of a Splash Map - of Global Climatic Change.

THE ESSENCE OF 'SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND' IS CAPTURED VISUO-SPATIALLY ON ONE SPLASHMAP BY DILIP MUKERJEA

Once again, Dilip Mukerjea, has captured the essence of the 'Secrets of the Millionaire Mind', by wealth-building coach T Harv Eker,  visuo-spatially on one single splashmap, as shown in the foregoing.

From my personal perspective, I have observed that the central premise of the author's work as embodied in the book, and as illustrated in the splashmap, as follows:

- If you want to change the visible, you will first have to change the invisible;

- Look to the roots, to enjoy the fruits;

- If you want to change the fruits, you will first change the roots;

- Money is a result; We live in a world of cause and effect; [not illustrated in the splashmap];

is actually a new spin to Napoleon Hill's original concept of wealth building:

"... all achievements, all earned riches, have their beginnings in an idea..."

As I interprete it, money in your hands is just a physical manifestation of an idea in your head.

That's to say, if you want to have more money in your hands, you must first change your thinking, or to put it precisely, you must replace the old idea with a new and better idea in your head, so that you can generate more effective results in your life with the new and better idea.

Also, Eker's causal example for thoughts leading to feelings, from feelings to actions, and from actions to results, is basically a function of the thinking process, which again must take precedence in order for results to manifest.

Likewise, his concept of four planes of existence: "spiritual", "mental", "emotional", "physical", with "physical" as the printout of the other three, and with "spiritual" being paramount, and being contributed by the other three, has to feed back - and feed forward - to the creative thinking process at the beginning, which is invariably governed by the values that are closest to our heart.

In other words, as the author has rightly acknowledged and advocated, we create our own performance results.  Therefore, we have to take personal responsibility and accountability. We cannot wimp, lay blame, and justify.

In a nut shell, we are the steering wheel of our own financial future.

To change our financial future, we have to change our thinking of the future. Ask yourself: Just how do we think?

In the end analysis, as concurred with Dilip, I am emphasising that personal creativity is critical to wealth building. To put it bluntly, it is the "mother of all wealth building".

According to Dilip, it is the intelligent and diligent efforts in creative thinking that one initiate - irrespectively of whether personally, professionally and organisationally - that ultimately converts "ideas" into "cash".

As a matter of fact, Dilip offers an elaborate  8-step creative thinking process, which he calls the Creative Sequence, which I will talk about in a separate blogpost.

I am not hinting that the T Harv Eker's work is frivolous or insignificant. He does offer new and interesting approaches in creating a millionaire mindset, even though some of which are in reality different spins, especially from the standpoint of syntactical variations, to Napoleon Hill's seventeen success habits.

Don't forget, the seventeen success habits were also the distillation of some 500 of the rich and famous, including Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller, in America during that era.

A GESTALT PERSPECTIVE OF INTELLECTUAL THOUGHTWARES FOR THE ACADEMIC & CORPORATE DOMAINS FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

The foregoing splashmap gives a gestalt perspective of all the current intellectual thoughtwares, available in multiple forms, like books, bookazines, posters, visual maps and charts, keynotes, seminars and workshops [from classrooms to boardrooms], participants' manuals and workbooks, as well as individually hand-crafted iconographics, for the academic and corporate domains from Dilip Mukerjea.

A GESTALT PERSPECTIVE OF & REVISITING NAPOLEON HILL'S 'LAW OF SUCCESS'

Braindancing maestro Dilip Mukerjea has, once again, very skilfully utilised one of his favourite tools - splashmap - from his proprietary visual mapping toolbox - to capture the seventeen success habits as embodied in the pioneer of the personal development genre and author Napoleon Hill's cult classic , 'Law of Success', which dates back to the 1930's.

It is pertinent for me to point out, as I have understood, that the author's 'Law of Success', with some two decades in the making [interview, research and writing], was originally the precursor to 'Think and Grow Rich', which was, for tactical reasons, published and released first.

Thanks to the braindancer's artistic virtuosity, the resultant splash map, as shown above, now gives a gestalt perspective of all the seventeen success habits at one quick glance.

More importantly, as a reader,  one can "zoom in" to take a detailed look of the salient points of each success habit as featured respectively in the splashmap, and "zoom out" to get a bird's eye view of the whole repertoire.

As you can see, the  #1 success habit ~ 'Definiteness of Purpose', is placed right in the centre of the splashmap. Rightly, this first success habit deserves the centralised position, because this is the starting point of all successful personal endeavours.

Interestingly, the #17 success habit ~ 'Cosmic Habitforce', shares more or less the same spatial ranking, as shown on the splashmap.

As I have explained to my good friend,  'Cosmic Habitforce' is the summation, or to put it more accurately, the cumulative synergistic effects of the preceding sixteen success habits in terms of tactical execution.

I like to add that Dilip's latest visual mapping endeavour has unwittingly brought me back to the late sixties or early seventies, during which the first batch of significant books that had the earliest and greatest influence on me, in terms of attaining personal success achievement, were mostly Napoleon Hill's books:

- 'Law of Success';

- 'Think and Grow Rich';

- 'The Keys to Success';

- 'Success through a Positive Mental Attitude';

- 'Succeed and  Grow Rich through Persuasion';

[The other early published works that had also influenced me tremendously included authors like Dale Carnegie, Earl Nightingale,  Paul J Meyer, and subsequently,  Steve deVore.]

I was then a young and ambitious engineer, just entering the dynamic world of work.

In a nut shell, Napoleon Hill, had impressed me most by his relentless dedication in spending some two to three decades of his working life in pursuing and researching the success secrets of the rich and famous... with a little encouragement from then industrial magnate Andrew Carnegie, of course.

As matter of fact, many of the famous people he had interviewed for 'Law of Success' were also favourite role models of mine e.g. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, just to name a few.

Till this day, I have never forgotten what he said:

"The most powerful instrument we have in our hands is the power of our mind."

I have never ceased to be fascinated by the simplicity and the potency of his ABCs of personal achievement: CONCEIVE, BELIEVE and ACHIEVE! as illustrated on the splashmap.

It is certainly enlightening to note that even Stephen Covey had drew inspiration from Napoleon Hill's work, even though he never made that credit. He only admitted that the '7 Habits' had its origins from "200 years of success literature in the United States." That remark itself is  self explanatory.

I am sure readers can see the ostentatious similarity between Napoleon Hill's  #1 success habit and Stephen Covey's Habit #1 'Having the End in Mind'.

Celebrity peak performance coach Anthony Robbin's 'Ultimate Success Formula' [ #1: "Know precisely your desired outcome, and understand WHY?"], as embodied in his Mastery University, books as well as audio/video resources, is no exception, even though he has been influenced to larger extent by NLP technology.

At this juncture, I like to share my take on each of Napoleon Hill's books as mentioned above:

- 'Law of Success': the original course on the fundamentals of success - all the seventeen success habits;

- 'Think and Grow Rich': the seventeen success habits are reframed and condensed in terms of thirteen concrete steps to wealth creation (in actuality, this is a condensation of the 'Law of Success');

- 'The Keys to Success': a further elaboration of the seventeen success habits, with concrete suggestions, exercises and advice;

- 'Success Through Positive Mental Attitude': joint authorship with Clement Stone, with a further emphasis on developing a positive mental attitude;

- 'Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion': joint authorship with Clement Stone, with a further emphasis on developing master salesmanship and networking;

It is pertinent to note that entrepreneur Clement Stone reportedly built his insurance business empire with these success habits.

My most productive, personal learning experience from Napoleon Hill's work is the understanding - and application - of his success habit #1 ~ 'Definiteness of Purpose'. It became my personal driving force throughout my corporate career spanning almost a quarter of a century.

Even today, as part of my "retyring", it still drives and spins my "new set of wheels", so to speak, in Ho Chi Minh City.

Come to think of it, it reverberates with quality guru W Edwards Deming's point #1 ~ 'Constancy of Purpose', as propounded in his mandatory 'Fourteen Points' for the pursuit of management excellence and organisational prosperity.

Very surprisingly, J Y Pillay, former Chairman of Singapore Airlines - who had been credited for building the airline to what it is today, A GREAT WAY TO FLY! - had personally credited his work axiom to this same success habit, but he attributed it to an ancient Hindu scripture known as Bhagavad Gita, written 2,600 years ago.

In fact, these were his exact words [in an interview with 'Sunday Times', many years ago, in Singapore]:

"Look, whenever you embark on anything, please tell me what is your objective. And there must be one. I don't want five. Just give me the principal objective. If you like, you can give me the ancillary objectives. But the principal objective must be clearly stated because later, as we go along, there will be tendencies to fudge. I don't want the principal objective to be fudged."

[J Y Pillay was often acknowledged by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as "one of the best brains in this part of the world that could match anyone in Corporate America.".]

I am certainly gratified to note that Napoleon Hill's work had casted so much influence on - and  empowered - so many people in the world, including yours truly.

By the way, I have an interesting lead here to share with readers. Readers who want to have all the seventeen success habits, beautifully encapsulated in individual scroll formats, can go to this link to download and print them out.

Many thanks to Donald Gordon Carty, President, Personal Development Institute, USA, for generously sharing the free link with the world.

[Note: For more information about Napoleon Hill and his legacy, readers can visit the corporate website of the Napoleon Hill Foundation.]

GENIUS AT WORK

Like the legendary 'Neutron Jack' or better known to the corporate world as Jack Welch, on account of his heydays of leading the industrial giant General Electric to organisational prosperity, braindancer Dilip Mukerjea is always pondering over the strategic question:

what does it take to win?

Mind-mapping is just one of the few tools he uses to organise his ideas so as to prime his thought processes at warp speeds.

In fact, he has created a number of proprietary tools to accelerate his own information gathering & thought processing at will.

Splash Mapping is one good one, which has already been highlighted in this weblog.

[Please refer to the following earlier blogposts:

1. "Introducing Splash Map, a Masterpiece from Dilip Mukerjea";

2. "Principal Components of a Lifescape, captured in a Splash Map";]

SPLASH MAP ON 'LEADERS MAKE THE FUTURE'

The foregoing Splash Map, by Dilip Mukerjea, is based on material from the book, 'Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World', by futurist Bob Johansen.

Please refer to my review of the book in an earlier post.

SPLASH MAP ON 'CATS'

Here's another beautiful SPLASH MAP from Dilip Mukerjea.

With it, he has captured the salient learning points from the book, 'CATS: The Nine Lives of Innovation', by Stephen Lundin, co-author of the bestselling Fish! series.

PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS OF A LIFESCAPE, captured in a SPLASH MAP

Another wonderful SPLASH MAP from Dilip Mukerjea! It captures all the principal components of a LIFESCAPE.

Dilip explains the significance of a LIFESCAPE as well as a SPLASH MAP, as follows:

"A LIFESCAPE is an interactive, stress-busting, energy-engineering device designed to transport you from where you are to where you wish to be. Tension exists between that which you are and that which you long to become. This gap is then filled with fear.

Thus, LIFESCAPES are provocative strategic thinking scenario charts of possibilities that get you to record and process, on one page, your compendium of thoughts, feelings, and action plans. They are meant for individual as well as group use, and can be processed on paper, or digitally.

The idea behind each LIFESCAPE is to encapsulate, and oxygenate, the thinking behind the thinking needed to move you ahead, from strength to strength, from the bleeding edge to the leading edge, from stress to serendipity to strategy to serenity to success! To superconsciousness, to spirituality!"


"A SPLASH MAP is a highly distilled, one-page encapsulation of integrated, visual-cum-verbal renderings of diverse themes.

It differs significantly from a Mind Maps in that it does not use key words but expanded thoughts, depicted as complete sentences and paragraphs to help one decipher the information being portrayed.

The imagery is also crafted with several layers of significance that serve as 'multipliers', each capable of being exploded into extensive dimensions of interpretation.

Each SPLASH MAP is configured for easy interpretation by a novice 'reader'...this is mostly not the case with Mind Maps.

Both SPLASH MAPS and Mind Maps, as crafted by me, are designed to act as tapestries for portraying panoramic vistas of information on a single page."

Dilip is currently in the process of finishing a new book on his LIFESCAPING methodology. It will probably be released in early 2010.

[All images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]

SPLASH MAP ON MINDSET

Here's a splash map on 'Mindset!: Reset Your Thinking & See the Future', based on the brilliant work of global futurist John Naisbitt, from Dilip Mukerjea.

SPLASH MAP ON THE EXTREME FUTURE

Here's a splash map on 'The Extreme Future', based on the brilliant work of global futurist James Canton, from Dilip Mukerjea.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORY, DR RAM CHARAN

Dilip Mukerjea has presented his unique splash map (A4- as well as A3, & even A2-sized) on leadership to Dr Ram Charan, internationally acclaimed success coach to Fortune 500 CEOs, when the latter delivered the 28th SIM (Singapore Institute of Management) Annual Management Lecture on 'Leadership in the Raging Economic Cyclone: New Rules for Thriving in Difficult Times & Beyond', in Singapore on 12th August 2009.

Dr Charan has gladly autographed the splash map. He has asked Dilip to mail a copy to him.

Among other great books, Dr Charan is the author of 'Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty', which I had already reviewed in an earlier post in the 'Optimum Performance Technologies' weblog.

For a quick overview of Dr Charan's brilliant thoughts on leadership, in addition to what is in the splash map, please read my earlier post, 'Leadership Skills for the 21st Century', in the 'Optimum Performance Technologies' weblog.

Dilip shares a very interesting snippet about Dr Charan, which has been reported once by Fast Company:

"Ram Charan lives nowhere and goes everywhere, consulting for the largest and most powerful companies seven days a week, 365 days a year. Work is all he does, and all he wants to do. But even more than his dedication, it's his insights that have won him the ear of hundreds of top managers...

Ram Charan is a knight errant of the 21st century, choosing to live nowhere and go everywhere in his quest to help businesses solve their thorniest conundrums. He does not own a home--or even rent one--has no nuclear family or significant material possessions, and he has his assistants FedEx his clean clothes to him. He doesn't play golf or vie for the best tables at power lunch spots. Irresistibly drawn to the corporate world's danger zones, he is in perpetual motion, working for the largest and most powerful companies seven days a week, 365 days a year. Most people would call such an existence bizarre, but for Charan, it's the ideal life.

"I tell you, I am a lucky man," he says, brown eyes sparkling like his ever-present cuff links. "I get to do what I love to do."

SPLASH MAP ON LEADERSHIP

Further to my earlier post about the splash map on leadership, based on the work of strategist Ram Charan, Dilip has enhanced the colour, as you can see from the foregoing new piece, which looks nicer & brighter.

INTRODUCING SPLASH MAP, A Masterpiece from Dilip Mukerjea

Here's a splash map from Dilip Mukerjea on the subject of leadership based on the work of Ram Charan, a noted expert on business strategy.

Unlike a conventional mind-map, as envisaged by its progenitor, Tony Buzan, a splash map is essentially a 'rich picture' representation of key ideas or idea clusters.

In this particular instance, the key ideas or idea clusters are not necessarily organised in a radial format. It's slightly more descriptive or narrative, as far as information capture is concerned.

That's to say, ideas or idea clusters do not necessarily revolve around key words, as in a conventional mind-map, but are defined by key concepts that need to be crisply illustrated in their entirety, wherever appropriate.

From the standpoint of knowledge acquisition, I reckon a splash map has an edge over a conventional mind-map by virtue of its ability to present high-content information in a big picture perspective.

More importantly, a splash map is more reader-friendly, so to speak, when compared to a mind-map, where the readability is often, understandably, more restricted to only the originator.