Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures

An original workbook companion to the acclaimed business bestseller The Back of the Napkin

Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin, a BusinessWeek bestseller, taught readers the power of brainstorming and communicating with pictures. It presented a new and exciting way to solve all kinds of problems-from the boardroom to the sales floor to the cubicle jungle.

The companion workbook, Unfolding the Napkin, helps readers put Roam's principles into practice with step-by-step guidelines. It's filled with detailed case studies, guided do-it-yourself exercises, and plenty of blank space for drawing. Roam structured the book as a complete four-day visual-thinking seminar, taking readers step-by-step from "I can't draw" to "Here is the picture I drew that I think will save the world."

The workbook teaches readers how to:
-Improve their three "built-in" visual problem solving tools.

-Apply the four-step visual thinking process (look-see-imagine-show) in any business situation.

-Instantly improve their visual imaginations.

-Learn how to recognize the type of problem to choose the best visual solution.

If The Back of the Napkin was a guide to fine dining, Unfolding the Napkin is the cookbook that will soon be heavily marked up and dogeared.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Portfolio
Published: 12/29/2009
ISBN: 9781591843191
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.90w x 0.90d