So, I was in the bookstore and I picked up this book along with Presentation Zen, and wouldn’t you know it, shortly afterwards I see a post on the Presentation Zen blog about this book. Undeterred by being scooped by Garr Reynolds on two of the books I’ve read lately, I decided to press on and read this book anyway.

As a man who loves whiteboards and feels most comfortable in a meeting with an Expo Dry Erase marker in his hand, I was definitely keen to read Dan Roam’s Back of the Napkin in order to see what I might be able to do to improve. Fortunately for me, the book assuaged my fears that I would have to learn to draw. Which, for any of you who may have seen me at a whiteboard in the past, knows that me learning to draw well may be impossible. For those of you, who haven’t seen me at a whiteboard, picture Jackson Pollock with dry erase as his medium, combined with a doctor’s handwriting labeling everything.

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