Index
AA 94, 109
acetylchline 23, 27
acronym 127, 128
activist 96, 97, 99
additives 24
adrenaline 20, 119, 229
alcohol 24
alpha waves 145, 146
Amazon.com 163
amygdala 91, 119
Argyris, Chris 72, 174
auditory sense 91,92, 98
axon 16
Bacon, Sir Francis 141
BAE Systems 112
Ball, Sir Christopher 245
Bandler, Richard 45
Bajer, Dr. Javier 35, 107
Balzac, Honoré de 220
basal ganglia 227
Beckett, Samuel 207
Bennis, Warren 184, 186
beta waves 145, 146
Bichard, Sir Michael 26, 41, 166, 182
big picture 32, 64, 66, 103, 104
Binet, Alfred 2
Blair, Tony 173, 178, 222
Bono, Edward de 145, 169, 170, 171, 172
Bradshaw, John 223
brain gym 50
brainstorming 165, 172, 173
British Airways 111, 164, 182
British Telecom 167
Broca’s area 157
Brocklebank, Trevor 23
Browder, Charles 160
Buzan, Tony 123
caffeine 23, 24
Cajal, Santiago Ramon y 16
Campaign for Learning 37, 55, 56, 62, 68,
69, 109, 114, 158, 165, 185, 223
Celemi 59, 140, 215, 217
Centrica, 94
challenge 64
Chambers, Dr. Neil 151, 165–6
change blindness 193
choking 226–8
chunking 32, 67, 100, 107–8
Claxton, Guy 8, 82, 134, 172
Coca-Cola Enterprises 225
cognitive behavior therapy 44
competence, unconscious and conscious 79,
226
connections, making 19, 105, 121, 128,
163, 167, 168
Connery, Sean 221
Cooper, Robert 164
corpus callosum 13, 144
cortisol 23, 119, 229
Covey, Stephen 42, 233, 237
creative visualization 45, 67, 124, 129
creativity 144–81
critical friend, role of 167
Cropper, Hilary 42, 52, 93, 134, 138, 151,
183, 210
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi 145
curiosity 36, 37, 57, 65, 106Darwin, Charles 190
Dehaen, Stanislaus 15
delta waves, 27, 145, 146
dendrites 16
Dennison, Paul 50
Department of Trade and Industry 112
Department for Education and Employment
26, 41, 166, 182