The large majority of business hours in my life is taken up in meetings, and almost all of the meetings are "Death by PowerPoint." A tiny minority of the slide decks are "stand alone" illustrated storybooks that need no presenter and could enable better communication for status updates.
Today I chanced upon this blog entry that illustrates a more-efficient and effective way to communicate status as well as the tangible and measurable benefits that result:
I have seen some grass roots efforts to institute this practice for a few meetings in the past but the idea has never caught on because of decades-long institutional corporate culture and a control-oriented tops-down demand for death-by-PowerPoint spoon feeding of status.
Change is always hard but this practice seems worth the pain.
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