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The vivid combination of words and pictures can help readers think and learn more quickly, teach and inspire their colleagues, and enjoy happier lives in general. Roam's solution is to merge the best aspects of one's visual and verbal minds.

When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat traditional airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent three cities. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers. Consultant Dan Roam shows readers how to harness their innate talent for visual thinking, promising that thinking with pictures can help anyone discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways and dramatically improve their ability to share their insights.

For most of us, giving a presentation is difficult and nerve-wracking, whether in a one-on-one meeting or in front of thousands. But it doesn't have to be that way. We only struggle when we forget the basic steps we learned in nursery: show and tell. Dan Roam is an award-winning presenter who has taken his whiteboard everywhere, from tiny start-ups to the White house. In this powerful book he introduces new tools for making extraordinary presentations in any setting. You'll learn how to understand your audience, organize your content, build a clear storyline, create effective visuals and channel your fear into fun. From nailing the opening to leaving a lasting impression, you'll soon be able to give the performance of a lifetime . . . time after time. 'A must-read for seasoned presenters and novices alike.' David Allen author of Getting Things Done

A fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers and anyone else who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences.

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

Komplexe Sachverhalte, umständlich erklärt und obendrein langweilig dargestellt – oder kurz: Bla Bla Bla. So empfinden wir nicht selten die wortreichen Vorträge und Power-Point-Präsentationen, die uns in Meetings, Seminaren und Fortbildungen einschläfern. Kein Wunder, dass wir das meiste wieder sofort vergessen. Mit Dan Roams neuem Band ist Schluss damit. Er führt anschaulich vor, wie das bewährte Prinzip des Storytellings seine inspirierende Wirkung voll entfaltet: in Kombination mit Bildern, Skizzen, Entwürfen oder ganzen Bildgeschichten. Ein Bild sagt mehr als 1000 Worte. Wenn man sich diese Tatsache geschickt zunutze macht, hat man das probate Gegenmittel für Langeweile und Vergessen. Und man lernt, wie man richtig Stoff sondiert, ihn strukturiert und schlussendlich präsentiert. Dan Roam sagt, was zu tun ist, wenn Worte ihren Dienst versagen – oder besser: Er zeigt es uns anschaulich in Bildern, Zeichnungen und Skizzen.