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Bezos banned it at Amazon
His feeling is that the whole idea of summarizing things to bullet points is stupid. If it's important enough to require an executive to make a decision, it's important enough for them to understand the details.
Read a book called the Amazon Rules. It's about the 7 rules that Amazon lives by and has since it's founding.
Like him or not, like Amazon or not, they are one of, if not the, most successful company in the history of the world. So they must be doing something right.
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PowerPoint is a corporate killer. Consummate time waster. I’ve been on a
-- RoswellGAHokie
Feb 08, 2024 at 09:26 PM ET
RoswellGAHokie
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02/08/24 09:26 PM ET
Self Help Singh will set you straight
-- 6GHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 04:56 PM ET
6GHokie
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02/09/24 04:56 PM ET
That's all we seem to work on. Work here is just going from deck to deck
-- ElbertoHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 02:43 PM ET
ElbertoHokie
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02/09/24 02:43 PM ET
you should hire McKinsey
-- MrBayAreaHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 12:15 PM ET
MrBayAreaHokie
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02/09/24 12:15 PM ET
And the last slide will be a long list of who to fire and outsource jobs to**
-- Dan1993
Feb 09, 2024 at 01:52 PM ET
Dan1993
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02/09/24 01:52 PM ET
Consultants are another entity I’d like to ban, but one thing at a time.
-- RoswellGAHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 01:04 PM ET
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02/09/24 01:04 PM ET
I see a lot of that at my job. Worse, actually. For a big proposal
-- Late 80s Hokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 09:11 AM ET
Late 80s Hokie
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02/09/24 09:11 AM ET
there's a graph for that **
-- bigbadbird
Feb 09, 2024 at 08:01 AM ET
bigbadbird
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02/09/24 08:01 AM ET
Bezos banned it at Amazon
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-- Vienna_Hokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:47 AM ET
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02/09/24 07:47 AM ET
PPT should be a tool for the meeting, not the focus of the meeting
-- turkeywinghokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:38 AM ET
turkeywinghokie
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02/09/24 07:38 AM ET
Good for you! When I worked, I constantly fought to cut the number of ->
-- HOKIERIT
Feb 09, 2024 at 08:00 PM ET
HOKIERIT
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02/09/24 08:00 PM ET
I was kicking around creating a PowerPoint Engineer Cert program
-- Happy Dog
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:31 AM ET
Happy Dog
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02/09/24 07:31 AM ET
Close on messag(es). Does it stand alone? Move on. Chart owner weak?**
-- ColoVT82
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:02 AM ET
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02/09/24 07:02 AM ET