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Vienna_Hokie
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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.
Posted: 02/09/2024 at 07:47 AM ET
(In response to this post by RoswellGAHokie)

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PowerPoint is a corporate killer. Consummate time waster. I’ve been on a
RoswellGAHokie 02/08/24 09:26 PM ET
Self Help Singh will set you straight
6GHokie 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 02/09/24 02:43 PM ET
you should hire McKinsey
MrBayAreaHokie 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 02/09/24 01:52 PM ET
Consultants are another entity I’d like to ban, but one thing at a time.
RoswellGAHokie 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 02/09/24 09:11 AM ET
there's a graph for that **
bigbadbird 02/09/24 08:01 AM ET
Bezos banned it at Amazon
Vienna_Hokie 02/09/24 07:47 AM ET
I think President Nixon
mancunian 02/09/24 09:23 AM ET
PPT should be a tool for the meeting, not the focus of the meeting
turkeywinghokie 02/09/24 07:38 AM ET
Good for you! When I worked, I constantly fought to cut the number of ->
HOKIERIT 02/09/24 08:00 PM ET
I was kicking around creating a PowerPoint Engineer Cert program
Happy Dog 02/09/24 07:31 AM ET
Close on messag(es). Does it stand alone? Move on. Chart owner weak?**
ColoVT82 02/09/24 07:02 AM ET
…nice deck
chumley 02/08/24 10:07 PM ET