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- Visual Problem Solving, Part II
- Dan Roam has written a book about show-and-tell, and why it's all you need to solve pretty much any business problem. Don't be fooled -- it is not the business version of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." His key point: visual thinking makes the complex...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Dan Roam Solves the Economic Crisis with a Napkin
- Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin is landing on lots of Best of 2008 book lists, including BNET's. On his blog, he just posted how he uses his visual problem solving method to come up with a fix for the economic crisis. It's a good way to get a look...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
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- The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam |Book Brief
- In his book, "The Back of the Napkin," author Dan Roam asserts that that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, but that we — especially in the business world — are never encouraged to develop it. In this video, Roam shows us how anyone with a...
- Videos 2008-04-10
- Guy Kawasaki on "The Back of the Napkin"
- The Find: Got a complex business problem? Of course you have to run the numbers, but one author argues that you should also sit down with a pen and paper and spend some time doodling. The Source: An interview conducted by venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki with Dan...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Business Bestsellers:Read 'Em and Leap
- Warren Buffett's biography and Dan Roam's book on visual problem solving are the only books to make Amazon.com business bestsellers and its editors 'best of' picks for 2008. Many of these books are not yet nominated for BNET's Best Business Books of 2008. There is still time for you to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Vote for BNET's Best Business Books -- Final Call
- We're about to close voting on BNET's Best Business Books of 2008. We'll run the polls through Monday Thursday and then we'll close voting. So far, these are the top vote getters: "One Hen," Katie Smith Milway "Predictably Irrational," Dan Ariely ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- BNET's Best Business Books of 2008
- These ten business books, from across the spectrum, received the most "yes" votes from BNET readers, with links to relevant BNET content on books or authors: One Hen, Katie Smith Milway Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus Back of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Best of BNET 2008: BNET's Best Business Books
- Here are synopses of BNET's Best Books of 2008, listed in order of votes received, with links to their Web sites, reviews, and author interviews where available. One Hen, by Katie Milway Smith 32 pages $18.95 Theme: Microfinance explained, in vivid color. Who...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- A Handy Health Care Reform Primer for Gen Y
- As group 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs pointed out in a Brazen Careerist blog post a few weeks ago, Gen Y has a strong incentive to take an interest in current legislative battles: Youth are unemployed at a rate over 8 percent higher than the national rate,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- The Visual Way to Solve Problems
- Computers lack the vision thing. Humans, however, excel at vision -- computer vision pales versus how well we process images.. Can businesses use this incredible visual ability to systematically how they operate? That's Dan Roam's argument in "The Back of the Napkin" (see Bnet's...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Management By Napkin
- Management By NapkinI'm curious what you think after readingHi Michael,Thanks for the plug on THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN. Ironically, when I first started working on the book, I had the same concerns you do: 1) Wouldn't it be too obvious? 2) Didn't everybody already do this? I needn't have...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Best Books Voting, So Far
- The top vote-getters so far in BNET's Best Business Books 2008 poll Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam When Markets Collide, Mohamed El-Erian Ahead of the Curve, Philip Delves Broughton ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Buffett's Bio Best of 2008 -- Business Pundit
- The Warren Buffett bio "Snowball" made the BNET notable list, but didn't garner enough votes for the top 10. Perhaps most voters are still plowing through its 976 pages. His mere Buffettness seemed enough to put the book at number one on Business Pundit's list of 2008's best business books....
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Management By Napkin
- Just out is Back of the Napkin, a book that looks at business problem-solving by using visual cues. My review copy is sitting here waiting for me to give it a look. My first impression is that "Back of the Napkin" is a little seat-of-the-pants (that's certainly true of the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Free Slice of Connection
- Change This recently posted The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. It's a semi-excerpt of Michael Stallard's book "Fired Up or Burned Out," reviewed on Big Think in October 2007 as The Importance of Connecting with Colleagues. It also has posts by Richard Florida and...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Solving Problems with Pictures | Useful Commute Podcast
- Learn how to use visual thinking to sell an idea or work out a complicated concept. In this podcast, Dan Roam, a management consultant and author of "The Back of the Napkin," explains how simple drawings -- or doodles -- can communicate better than complex presentations -- and you don't have...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Help Pick BNET's Best Business Books of 2008
- It's time for the Big Think list of the best business books of 2008. Over the next week, post in comments on your favorite book or books published in 2008, and I'll gather them all up and pull together a poll that lets you vote on them. That will decide...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
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