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 enlarge | Author: Dan Roam
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 214
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1591841992
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.403
EAN: 9781591841999
ASIN: 1591841992
Publication Date: March 13, 2008
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 Needs more drawings, less chatter July 20, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I also wanted to like this book. And, to be fair, I didn't read the entire book. I just couldn't. It goes on and on about how important visual thinking is. Okay, okay, I get it. Now what? Well, the author then--as others have pointed out--paradoxically proceeds to bore us with chatter about how to proceed with using drawing and visual thinking instead of sticking to his guns and using more drawings! ATTENTION KINDLE USERS: The Kindle version's drawings of this book are barely perceptible; it's quite a chore to squint and figure out what they are supposed to be. Adjusting the font size of the text does nothing for the illustrations.
 Geared more to sales than sharing ideas July 18, 2008
I bought this book because the idea of improving my visual thinking skills was intriguing. The first half of the book was more helpful to me than the second (the case study).
The main thing I was looking for help improving was my public speaking and teaching skills. It was moderately helpful in this area. The main audience I think that would be interested in this book is salespeople or consultants. It spends a lot of time convincing the reader to use hand drawn graphs instead of PowerPoint or Excel created ones.
a big disappointment July 17, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
i was really disappointed with this book. i tend to be a visual guy, and had a high level of expectancy about how fun this book would be to read, and how helpful it would be. but i was bored -- crazy bored. i could barely finish it.
there are some good ideas in the book, to be sure. but i found it horribly paradoxical that a book about using drawings would be so pickin' linear. there were three steps for this, and 6 rules for that. i felt like i was reading a john maxwell leadership book! the cute little drawings on every page even got really old. tons of repeated info, and `no duh' stuff also.
sorry, not a helpful book.
Easy to read July 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed reading this book, the language is easy, the proposed models are nice and for sure add up to your way of thinking, but i guess that implementing the concepts isnt as easy as the book proposes ....
 poor kindle conversion... July 15, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This review refers ONLY to the kindle version.
The way that the kindle converts the text to an e-format forces the images at a fixed size -- a size that too small to be able to see details.
You can resize the text, but not the pictures.
Obviously, this was more than a little annoying in a book that is all about using pictures to convey information.
Also, there were several places in the book where there was a caption for a picture but just a blank space where the picture (presumably) was supposed to appear.
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