Motivation on the Run

You can’t think outside the box if you do away with the box. Creativity can spawn any number of ideas, both good and bad, but sometimes you hit the jackpot.

This article gives new meaning to the word, creativity. Alan Stensland, an FAA engineer, needed a better way to track quickly changing information, and to make it available to his four man team. MindJet’s MindManager came to the rescue by giving exactly what was needed. Neat story.

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“When airports are going off and online quickly, new information comes in by the hour — sometimes by the minute,” Stensland said. “By the time we’d find the information in the printout, it might be out of date.”

That information chaos is largely a thing of the past since the office started using a new type of software known as a mind-mapping tool. Using Mindjet’s mind-mapping tool MindManager, Stensland’s team enters the names and status information of the stricken facilities so they can view a graphical presentation on a computer screen. That view shows them the relationships among the different airports so they can identify at a glance by color-coded graphics which ones are down, which nearby ones are available to take over from those that are off-line, which are close to being back in operation, and so on.