|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
The acclaimed bestseller about visual problem solving-now bigger
and better
"There is no more powerful way to prove that we know something
well than to draw a simple picture of it. And there is no more
powerful way to see hidden solutions than to pick up a pen and draw
out the pieces of our problem."
So writes Dan Roam in "The Back of the Napkin," the international
bestseller that proves that a simple drawing on a humble napkin can
be more powerful than the slickest PowerPoint presentation. Drawing
on twenty years of experience and the latest discoveries in vision
science, Roam teaches readers how to clarify any problem or sell
any idea using a simple set of tools.
He reveals that everyone is born with a talent for visual
thinking, even those who swear they can't draw. And he shows how
thinking with pictures can help you discover and develop new ideas,
solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve your
ability to share your insights.
Take Herb Kelleher and Rollin King, who figured out how to beat
the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines with a bar napkin and a pen.
Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three
arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made
it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers.
Now with more color, bigger pictures, and additional content, this
new edition does an even better job of helping you literally see
the world in a new way. Join the teachers, project managers,
doctors, engineers, assembly-line workers, pilots, football
coaches, marine drill instructors, financial analysts, students,
parents, and lawyers who have discovered the power of solving
problems with pictures.
The Pop-Up Pitch is a radical new approach to help you create the
perfect presentation, combining three key elements of persuasive
storytelling-simple pictures, clear words, and powerful
emotions-that together motivate audiences to pay attention, learn
something new, and make effective decisions. The Pop-Up Pitch
weaves together the latest insights on visual cognition, behavioral
economics, and classic story structures in an easy-to-learn and
inspiring storytelling algorithm. In this new era of remote, work
and online presenting, it delivers powerful and persuasive outcomes
for time-limited professionals dealing with complex ideas,
attention-deficit audiences, and the evolving challenges of modern
meetings.
Dan Roam, the bestselling author of The Back of the Napkin, teaches
us how to make extraordinary presentations. We are all natural born
presenters. We have ideas to share, voices to share them, and
people to share them with. But if we are all capable of giving
presentations, why do we find public speaking so hard? Show and
Tell provides a simple five-step path to take us from jitters and
complexity to confidence and clarity. As presenters, our goal is to
educate, entertain, persuade, motivate, and ultimately change our
audience. As a top-notch presenter and speaker, Dan Roam has put
together a guide full of his tried-and-true visual techniques and
the wisdom he has gained from doing award winning presentations
like "healthcare reform on napkins". Roam's lively visual style,
hand-drawn pictures, and vivid text will help regular people
overcome anxiety, carry out a vision, and perform a little magic.
Dan Roam is the author of The Back of the Napkin, which was Fast
Company's Best Business Book of the Year and BusinessWeek's
Innovation and Design Book of the Year, and more recently Blah Blah
Blah. He is the founder of Digital Roam, Inc., a management
consulting company. His clients have included Microsoft, Google,
Wal-Mart, Boeing, Lucasfilm, The Gap, and the White House Office of
Communications. His health-care analysis was named BusinessWeek's
Best Presentation of 2009. He lives in San Francisco.
|
|