Forbes: The Benefits of Drawing and Illustrating Your Concepts

This post was originally posted on Forbes Agency Council, and you can read the full article there.

I must confess that I write a lot: documents, articles and even books (I’m finishing up book number 10 as I write this article). While I’m thankful I’ve had a lot of readers over the years, I also know it’s hard to find time in the day to read long documents or other communications, particularly when days are spent in endless meetings—virtual or otherwise.

Yet, concepts and messages need to be communicated, and in order for projects and initiatives to proceed, there needs to be a good understanding of them. I would like to propose that you spend as much time drawing out your ideas in flow charts and other illustrations as you do describing them with prose and bullet points.

This post was originally posted on Forbes Agency Council, and you can read the full article there.