Take an example from Amazon, a successfull tech company, of the type so admired by MW. Ban the use of PowerPoint....we have so many professional PowerPoint engineers, such a ban would not only lead to more defined decisions but a major head reduction once those who only produce PowerPoint are invited to find an alternative employer.
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We can’t record the presentation because that leaves an evidence trail and that might lead to accountability. Not happening.
Because we never generate reports anymore, we instead reinvent the wheel over and over again. I get that in this new world no one has the time nor ability to write anymore (I joined Chevron in the 1980s when time were different), but why can't we at least record the presentation voice (or transcription) of those final project summaries or decision gate presentations. How many times have you looked thorough old powerpoint decks trying to figure out the content?
PowerPoint spread through Chevron (and admittedly, other companies as well) over the last 25 years for two reasons: 1) Management refused to spend the time to (or just couldn't) read formal reports, and is much happier with 'summary' PPs that lack depth or nuance. Hence why so many managers want a "pre-read" rather than actually sitting through a presentation. 2) The overwhelming majority of the company's employees never learned how to communicate in college, be it or-l reports or presentations. They were led to believe that 140 characters (now 280) is all you needed to make your point.
Guess 1 of the PowerPoint engineers is upset... poor little millenial snowflake.
Id--t, Amazon makes folks create word document briefs instead. We can’t get folks to read a simple PowerPoint bullet point pre-read prior to meetings, what makes you think these lazy managers would read a fu----g word document???
There’d be 120 people left in HOU.