Business

A bold new way to tackle tough business problems—even if you draw like a second grader. When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers. Used properly, a simple drawing on a humble napkin is more powerful than Excel or PowerPoint. It can help crystallize ideas, think outside the box, and communicate in a way that people simply “get”. In this book Dan Roam argues that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, even those who swear they can’t draw. Drawing on twenty years of visual problem solving combined with the recent discoveries of vision science, this book shows anyone how to clarify a problem or sell an idea by visually breaking it down using a simple set of visual thinking tools – tools that take advantage of everyone’s innate ability to look, see, imagine, and show. THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN proves that thinking with pictures can help anyone discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve their ability to share their insights. This book will help readers literally see the world in a new way. more...

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It is not uncommon to meet professionals in financial services who have only a vague idea of what their colleagues actually do. The root cause is specialization and the subsequent development of jargon that makes communication between common specialists faster and more precise but is virtually impenetrable to everybody else. more...

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The friendly, easy-to-use guide to bookkeeping basics This handy guide covers everything professionals need to know to balance the books at a big company or a mom-and-pop store, including assets and liabilities; keeping track of transactions; balance sheets; keeping a ledger and journal; financial statements; operating accounts; and up-to-date tax information. more...

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Let Barb Schwarz——the creator of the Home Staging concept——show you what it takes to make it in the Home Staging industry. In 1972, Barb Schwarz coined the term ''Staging'' to refer to the process of preparing a home for sale, and turned her idea into a brand new industry. more...

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The Definitive How-To Guide for Business and Competitive Analysis: Transform raw data into compelling, actionable business recommendations; Answer the questions executives ask–“What?” “So What?” and “Now What?” Today’s 24 most valuable techniques: how to choose them, how to use them; For everyone who performs analysis: managers, consultants, functional specialists, and strategists; A completely new book by the authors of the popular Strategic and Competitive Analysis. Business success begins with deep clarity about your competition and your business environment. more...

Price: $59.99