SXSW on the book stage
It’s official: on Saturday, March 8th the team at SXSW has given me the stage to talk about The Back of the Napkin. If you’re in Austin, drop by the ‘room day stage’ in the main hall at 1:30 for a...
View ArticleDoodling for Dollars
Businessweek.com this week features "The Back of the Napkin" as the basis for their slide show on the rise of quick sketching as a business tool. Online editor Douglas MacMillan interviewed me in NY...
View ArticleWhen Tom Peters calls…
I’m honored to be featured this week as Tom Peters’ newest "cool friend". Several days ago, I had a wonderful interview with Erik Hansen of the Tom Peters company. It was supposed to last 30 minutes...
View ArticlePost2Post Virtual Book Tour
Paul Williams is an interesting guy. After leading marketing efforts at Starbucks and Disney, he headed to Amsterdam to found his own innovation lab, and Idea Sandbox was born. Among other ideas, every...
View ArticleOne hour soapbox
Tom Crawford is a classy guy. Not only is he the CEO of VizThink, he also asked me to do a podcast with him about my book. But on top of all that, he then gave me *all the time I needed* to go into...
View ArticleMiami Herald follow-up: “Potent and Effective” :-)
Richard Pachter of the Miami Herald offered his readers an early chance to read and review The Back of the Napkin. Back in mid February, he put my book on his reader’s list, and his review just went...
View ArticleBNET videos the napkin
Thanks to the amazing editors, producers, and animators at BNET, here’s a video showing many ideas from my book. (Can’t see the video? Click here.)
View ArticleBusinessWeek’s summer reading list
BusinessWeek just published their summer reading list for MBA students. The ten books include titles by Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Friedman, Michael Porter, and James Joyce (!). Number ten? The Back of...
View ArticleNapkin tools: now downloadable!
Ever since The Back of the Napkin appeared, people have been asking me for download-friendly versions of the key visual thinking tools I introduce. So due to popular request, here they are;...
View ArticleA portrait of the artist as a book buyer
This modern world our ours works in mysterious ways. The Guardian newspaper (the London one, not the San Francisco Bay Guardian one where I started my career twenty years ago, nor the Moscow Guardian...
View ArticleThe 3 greatest presentation books of all time. (That have nothing to do with...
As we reach the final countdown before the launch of my new book (pre-order Show and Tell now and join me for a secret webinar on April 10), I am reflecting on the many incredible presentation books I...
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