This document provides an overview of 50 ways to solve problems visually using diagrams. It lists various diagramming techniques categorized under headings like design classics, sequencing techniques, negotiation strategies, prioritization methods, storytelling approaches, grids for clarity, understanding time concepts, forecasting sensibly, distinguishing ideas, decision making, perfecting presentations, and puzzles. The full techniques and explanations are only available by purchasing the related book or scheduling a speaker.

2. 50 ways to solve any problem visually.
A taster.

3. • A design classic
• Essence of any 1/2/3 sequence
• Space in middle adds 4th component
• The power of interlocking

4. • Platform, transition, peak
• High to low volume
• Best with numbers

5. • Essence of any negotiation
• Crucial and irrefutable ally
• The power of “If...”

6. • Only 3 things matter
• Apply to yourself
• Use for appraisals

7. • How to tell a strategic story
• Start broad, then reduce
• Recommend with clarity

8. • Direction & encapsulation
• Clarity from grids
• The significance of top right
• Inside or outside the box?

9. • Disengage from emotion of old/new
• Objective analysis of habits
• Powerful template for action

10. • Everything’s urgent
• How to get stuff done
• How to ignore irrelevant stuff

11. • Win the business with one diagram
• Plot any market
• Encapsulate strategy visually

12. • How to view a negotiation
• Get what you want
• Understand what you don’t

13. • Completeness
• Non-linear
• Overlapping or discrete
• Segments and satellites

14. • How to explain ideas clearly
• Sub-sets and interrelationships
• Themes and fertility of ideas

15. • Understanding colleagues
• Understanding what role to perform
• Realizing it can change by the minute

16. • Time - a difficult concept
• When to expend effort
• False views of ‘the year’
• Deadlines and Livelines

17. • Human nature to delay
• Unfortunate consequences of doing so
• Better understanding and use of time

18. • Why companies are usually unrealistic
• Predicting when things will happen
• Sensible forecasting

19. • Distinguishing between the two
• Planning realistically
• Doing a few things well

20. • Going with the flow
• Rivers, dams, funnels, & buckets
• Decision moments
• Imbalances and rough edges

21. • From okay, to good, to exceptional
• Weed out unhelpful projects
• Concentrate on the truly remarkable

22. • Perfect story telling
• Reduce, reveal, expand
• Cadence and pace of a presentation

23. A PUZZLE FOR YOU .......
Draw nine dots on a blank
page like this.
Now try to join all the dots
using no more than four
lines, and without taking
the pen off the paper.

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