Dan Roam

Draw to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

September 18, 2016

Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (September 2016) “Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he…

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The Importance of Drawing and Doodling to Developing Breakthrough Ideas

August 30, 2016

Prior to the invention of language, human beings relied on hand gestures and then scratchings on cave walls or in the soil as the only ways that they could communicate. Today, people still communicate with drawings. For example, Rollin King…

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Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way: A book review by Bob Morris

April 29, 2014

Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way: Sustainable Success for the Creative Entrepreneur Jennifer Lee New World Library (2014) This is a WORK book for those who are willing and able to nourish and make effective use of their right brain.…

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The Doodle Revolution: A book review by Bob Morris

February 12, 2014

The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently Sunni Brown Portfolio/Penguin Group (2014) How to make spontaneous marks (with your mind and body) to help yourself think with greater precision and clarity In this entertaining as well as informative…

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Tim Brown on “The One Thing You Need to Generate Great Ideas”

February 1, 2014

Here is a brief article by Tim Brown for LinkedIn Pulse during which he explains why a drawing is worth a thousand words. That’s his version of the age-old adage. When it comes to expressing the functional and emotional merits…

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Lee LeFever: An interview by Bob Morris

March 16, 2013

Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft and author of The Art of Explanation – Making Your Ideas, Products and Services Easier to Understand. In 2007 he saw an opportunity to explain technology using short animated videos. Starting with…

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The Practicing Mind: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2012

The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Thomas M. Sterner New World Library (2012) How and why “focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of [merely] having a goal…is magical and incredibly empowering” For almost three decades, K. Anders Ericsson and…

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Emotional Equations: A book review by Bob Morfris

May 25, 2012

Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success Chip Conley Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) An “operating manual” from an “emotional concierge” for those who seek meaning in life on the other side of complexity I have read and reviewed Chip Conley’s previous books…

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