The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

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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The unique and compelling power of illustrating an idea

May 15, 2012

I have just read Toby Lester’s Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image. The first of several dozen of passages caught my eye and I immediately thought of Dan Roam. More about him in a…

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Dan Roam: Second Interview, by Bob Morris

October 28, 2011

“I believe that any problem can be solved with a picture. And that anybody can draw it.” Dan Roam is the author of two international bestsellers, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures and Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex…

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The Back of the Napkin: A book review by Bob Morris

September 22, 2011

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
 Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (2009) I read the original (published in 2008) and then this second edition with increasing admiration. As I began to work my way through Dan…

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Dan Roam: First interview, by Bob Morris

July 8, 2011

Here are two of  Dan Roam’s core beliefs: “I believe that any problem can be solved with a picture. And that anybody can draw it.” That’s not a BS blurb from one of his books, articles, or speeches. He lives those…

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