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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
by Dan Roam
from Portfolio Hardcover

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Immediately changed the way I think about sharing information...
  Most business presentations rely on fancy graphs, professional graphics, and slick tools to get their point across. But sometimes, the most effective way to make your case is to whip out a napkin and start drawing. Dan Roam covers that subject in the book The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. This opened my eyes to many different concepts that I somewhat took for granted, as well as giving me a framework for getting better at the whiteboard...
  Contents:
  Part 1... more info

• For me, it's an intellectual extension to Kurt Hanks' 'Rapid Viz', but with a more systems perspective to view issues!
  I have always been fascinated by visual thinking & visual problem solving.
  I attribute this captivation of mine partly to my engineering training - seeing the problem first before getting to the solution.
  In the earlier years of my professional career, my field guide to visual thinking & visual problem solving happened to be Henning Nelms' 'Thinking with a Pencil'. I could relate to it very quickly because of my engineering work.
  In subsequent years, I had picked up the mind-mapping... more info

• I wish I had this book 10 years ago
  Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, is a wonderful instructional manual that teaches you the power of visual thinking in four lessons - introduction to visual thinking, discovering ideas, developing ideas, and selling ideas.
  Dan explains how you don't have to be a "visual person" to take advantage of the power of visual thinking. He lays out a specific four step process of visual thinking that anyone can follow. I can't draw to save my life, but I'm... more info

• Great concept but....
  Great idea but hard concept to accept as ALL business problems are just not that easy to assign to the catagories referenced in this book.

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