Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin is landing on lots of Best of 2008 book lists, including BNET's.
On his blog, he just posted how he uses his visual problem solving method to come up with a fix for the economic crisis. It's a good way to get a look at how it works.
Michael Fitzgerald
Michael Fitzgerald writes about innovation and other big ideas in business for publications like the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc. and CIO. He’s worked as a writer or editor at Red Herring, ZDNet, TechTV and Computerworld, and has received numerous awards as a writer and editor. Most recently, his piece on the hacker collective the l0pht won the 2008 award for best trade piece from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He was also a 2007 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion.
