Unfolding the Napkin

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.