I wanted to share with you what I consider to be one of the best sites on the internet – syque.com – and its creator and maintainer David Straker.
Syque.com is an umbrella site that contains several truly brilliant sub-sites. Here is a sample:
ChangingMinds
ChangingMinds.org is already a huge site, with over 2000 pages on all subjects around how we change one another’s minds. Including:
- Disciplines: professions for changing minds.
- Techniques: practical applied methods.
- Principles: underlying ways that people change minds.
- Explanations: why it works.
- Theories: deep psychology.
CreatingMinds
CreatingMinds.org is a new site about creativity and innovation, with around 400 full-content pages. Including:
- Tools: A huge toolbox of creative tools.
- Quotes: Thousands of quotes on creative topics.
- Principles: Principles of creativity.
- Articles: More articles on creativity and creative organizations.
Quality Tools
Quality Tools contains about 600 pages, mostly on the tools and techniques of quality and improvement, including the full text of a major book and ten-plus years of journal articles.
- The Quality Toolbook: The full content of a 400+ page book.
- Tools of the Trade: Over 60 articles from 10 years in Quality World.
- Articles: Further articles about quality.
The Improvement Encyclopedia
This is a long list of around 400 items, each with a page containing descriptions of tools and terms about improvement and quality, ranging from original Japanese terminology to Six Sigma frameworks.
Along with businessballs, quality tools
If you want to keep up with what David is thinking and writing about, the check out his Changing Minds blog.
