Who remembers the Mike Myers SNL skit Simon ? (For an introduction, or refresher click the link ) Somewhere along the way of becoming an adult, we've stopped communicating visually. If you look at Mike Myers in that SNL skit, he's doing the most basic form of effective communication-- combining pictures with a story. PowerPoint slides with bullets. Carefully formatted Word documents. Long emails that are grammatically challenged. These are the things that dominate our business communication. And you wonder why business people complain how horrible communication usually is within the company... In Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley which is a book that I read a while back on my Design Thinking binge, he writes a section on Drawing Confidence. In that section, he refers to Dan Roam who is a visual thinker. This is a guy that can basically wake up your right brain if you choose to awaken it. (Click on his name to see what he's about) An effective way to f...
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