The Diagrams Book: 50 Ways to Solve Any Problem Visually (Concise Advice Lab) Hardcover – October 27, 2022

Part of a great trilogy along with the Ideas book and the Decisión book; gets you started on any project.

You don't need this because you already know it

As the other reviewer said: common sense for the working class.I was thinking the book would should some out of the box thinking, but it doesn't.

I own a business and at times create models to help explain concepts to clients. This little book is a great source of inspiration. Most of the diagrams you will have seen before, but Kevin Duncan breaks them down to help you decide which diagram/model format to use. This isn't a revolutionary book, but it's not designed to be. It's a helpful tool to push your knowledge on diagrams/models a bit further. I reference it frequently. I recommend it!

Easy to read. Helps a lot on making illustrations in Powerpoint.

This is a very helpful little book. It packs a lot into its few words and limited pages. It shows well how certain shapes convey certain relationships. Basically it's a meditation on similarity/difference/overlap. Do you emphasise similarity or difference? Do you need to get away from the old? Have you a clear goal in mind. Are things closer together or further apart? Do certain things need to come closer together? Diagrams allow us to illustrate such thoughts graphically and easily.Each diagram has a use- and can be adapted to multiple settings. The author describes scenarios mainly from a business setting but they can be adapted to other settings easily- fundamentally this is a book about structures and representations of thought- and the similarities of these structures across disciplines and specialities is more remarkable than the differences.The Personal Motivation Triangle (10) is more easily summarised as satisfaction, salary and support. All triangular descriptions collapse into instability- the three concepts in them can never all be fully achieved at once- one is played off against another in any scenario. We have perpetrator-victim-rescuer triangles in psychology (Drama Triangle from transactional analysis), thesis-antithesis-synthesis in philosophy (largely from Hegel- but with lineage back to Aristotle) prosecutors-defenders-judges in courtrooms, the doctor-thepatient- and the illness in medicine (from Michael Balint) The instability of the triangle is what actually creates the interest in the scenario.This is a very useful and sensible book, and the pictures within it can be adapted to many settings. I wonder if the author could improve it by describing some examples from differen settings- to emphasise the similarities in human thought patterns across disciplines. We think along certain mind lines- and diagrams allow us to show the direction of these mind lines across our mental and physical time and space.Overall this is avery helpful book, that contains more than you would expect within 116 pages. The models given are useful, and readily adaptable into many contexts of work and life.I'll expect better diagrams and clarity form people who use this book.

Viele gebräuchlich Diagrammen fehlen in dem Buch. Für die, die dargestellt sind, gibt es nicht wirklich gute Anwendungsbeispiele. Zu Theoretisch und unvollständig.

The Diagrams Book is an excellent resource for anyone who needs to use drawings, figures and yes, diagrams, to explain concepts to others. I've been using it to help illustrate some parts of my PhD thesis, but I could equally have used it in my previous lives in finance and commerce. It's straightforward, and jargon-free, and full of ideas for diagrams which illuminate rather than diagrams which complicate. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

This is a very helpful little book. It packs a lot into its few words and limited pages. It shows well how certain shapes convey certain relationships. Basically it's a meditation on similarity/difference/overlap. Do you emphasise similarity or difference? Do you need to get away from the old? Have you a clear goal in mind. Are things closer together or further apart? Do certain things need to come closer together? Diagrams allow us to illustrate such thoughts graphically and easily.Each diagram has a use- and can be adapted to multiple settings. The author describes scenarios mainly from a business setting but they can be adapted to other settings easily- fundamentally this is a book about structures and representations of thought- and the similarities of these structures across disciplines and specialities is more remarkable than the differences.The Personal Motivation Triangle (10) is more easily summarised as satisfaction, salary and support. All triangular descriptions collapse into instability- the three concepts in them can never all be fully achieved at once- one is played off against another in any scenario. We have perpetrator-victim-rescuer triangles in psychology (Drama Triangle from transactional analysis), thesis-antithesis-synthesis in philosophy (largely from Hegel- but with lineage back to Aristotle) prosecutors-defenders-judges in courtrooms, the doctor-thepatient- and the illness in medicine (from Michael Balint) The instability of the triangle is what actually creates the interest in the scenario.This is a very useful and sensible book, and the pictures within it can be adapted to many settings. I wonder if the author could improve it by describing some examples from differen settings- to emphasise the similarities in human thought patterns across disciplines. We think along certain mind lines- and diagrams allow us to show the direction of these mind lines across our mental and physical time and space.Overall this is avery helpful book, that contains more than you would expect within 116 pages. The models given are useful, and readily adaptable into many contexts of work and life.I'll expect better diagrams and clarity form people who use this book.

In this book I found mostly trivial knowledge: You can draw triangles. Or squares.When you want to illustrate a relationship between three partners (or positions, events or what you want), use triangles, not squares. Lesson learned???Probably I just did not understand the intention of the author?!?

I really wanted to like this book. I do like the way it's laid out, and each diagram is well explained, but there is nowhere near enough depth or breadth.The problem is that the diagrams, and the concepts they convey, are very limited. Some of them, frankly, are so shallow that they're closer to clipart than conceptual diagrams. All of them are from a very narrow domain of marketing or basic business strategy.