The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Great book
  If you have to get complex points across to people as part of your job, this book will help you do a better job. Great for technical sales or product management.

• Needs more drawings, less chatter
  I also wanted to like this book. And, to be fair, I didn't read the entire book. I just couldn't. It goes on and on about how important visual thinking is. Okay, okay, I get it. Now what? Well, the author then--as others have pointed out--paradoxically proceeds to bore us with chatter about how to proceed with using drawing and visual thinking instead of sticking to his guns and using more drawings! ATTENTION KINDLE USERS: The Kindle version's drawings of this book are barely perceptible; it's quite a chore... more info

• Geared more to sales than sharing ideas
  I bought this book because the idea of improving my visual thinking skills was intriguing. The first half of the book was more helpful to me than the second (the case study).
  The main thing I was looking for help improving was my public speaking and teaching skills. It was moderately helpful in this area. The main audience I think that would be interested in this book is salespeople or consultants. It spends a lot of time convincing the reader to use hand drawn graphs instead of PowerPoint or Excel... more info

• a big disappointment
  i was really disappointed with this book. i tend to be a visual guy, and had a high level of expectancy about how fun this book would be to read, and how helpful it would be. but i was bored -- crazy bored. i could barely finish it.
  there are some good ideas in the book, to be sure. but i found it horribly paradoxical that a book about using drawings would be so pickin' linear. there were three steps for this, and 6 rules for that. i felt like i was reading a john maxwell leadership book! the cute... more info

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