by Rob Worth | 14 Jul 2021 | Structure, Writing tips
Don’t crunch gears between chapters – Read your reader’s mind … and those are the lessons from chapter 7. (Reader: Wow, interesting!) (Flip page…) Welcome to chapter 8, which about something completely unconnected to chapter 7. (Reader: Are there some...
by Rob Worth | 11 Jul 2021 | Structure, Writing tips
4 questions to make your complexity or systems book compelling If you are thinking about writing a book, make it relevant to readers with 4 questions. 1) What’s my unique position? List experiences, models, methods, stories and insights. 2) Think about the different...
by Rob Worth | 6 Jul 2021 | Writing tips
Don’t spend years on your book and let it bomb because you didn’t do this The comedian stepped onto the stage holding a thick sheaf of A4 printer paper. He gave the audience a wink, glanced at the top sheet and read a joke. Silence. He dropped the piece of paper. Open...
by Rob Worth | 5 Jul 2021 | Writing tips
Diagrams – Do they stop readers thinking? A picture is worth a thousand words. Or, a picture closes off a thousand thoughts. To use pictures or diagrams to accompany, explain or clarify complex ideas is something that people take for granted. When Ivo Velitchkov came...
by Rob Worth | 4 Jul 2021 | Change
If they won’t listen to your ideas, then what? I finished the presentation and looked up at empty faces. I may as well have been telling knock, knock jokes for the previous thirty minutes. In 2001, I was a software development team leader for a web/java team that...
