Favorite author Dan Pink explains a new concept in PowerPoint presenting initiated by two Tokyo-based architects who’ve turned the process into a competive art form. The rules are simple: 20 slides — 20 seconds each.Take 6 minutes and 40 seconds to relate your message, then sit down and shut-up. Think how much more efficient your […]
Most people think of a “snap judgement” as a bad thing, but according to researchers quick decisions might be best. From the article…Study participants were asked to identify an oddly rotated symbol on a screen of more than 650 identical symbols. Those who made quick, instinctive decisions did better at correctly identifying the symbol than […]
A new article on ManageSmarter speaks to the potentially fatal effects of boring training films in a piece titled “Beyond Death by Video.” From the article… It’s every trainee’s worst nightmare. You report for your first day on the job and spend the next eight hours holed up in a room watching dull-as-dirt new-hire training […]
Big ideas can spring forth from bad meetings.Read the article below and see what you think… Idea Born Out of A FailureThirteen Club Originated as Result of Poor Meeting.By C. A. Hanson.Canton, OH., May 23. — “Failure” is the most dreaded word in the English language, yet I have just witnessed the birth of an […]
I stumbled across a creative new business on the web the other day — a company that markets t-shirts with text message autoresponders. You create a shirt on the site, choose a keyword, program your text-back response, and post your shirt on the site. Aside from being a very cool concept, I also believe this […]
Looks like Ford ought to be including a Boring Meetings Suck book as part of its standard features package: http://www.BoredomHurts.com Give me a call guys, I’m sure I can arrange for a bulk discount.
By sheer coincidence, on the very day the first box of Boring Meetings Suck books was delivered to the door in Columbus, Ohio, Seth Godin posted about a breakfast he had with a senior executive who says they spend more than 30% of their time in internal meetings (Yikes! That number doesn’t even appear to […]
From Information Aesthetics…—Research at the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia claims the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in either verbal or written form, but not both at the same time. More of the passages would be understood & retained if heard or read separately. “The use of the […]
If you must add charts to your presentation slides, at least make them crazy awesome… The guys from Threadless.com gave a presentation at Community Next and included this chart in their slide show that demonstrates their business model progression from “Sorta Awesome” to “Crazy Awesome” over the course of seven years. While you’re at it […]
Courtesy of Lifehacker.com comes an idea for inserting a PPT slide that highlights your bulletpoints as sticky-notes. Tech blogger Leisa Reichelt created a groupoing of Post-It notes containing her message, photographed it, then added it to her PPT file. Nice idea~!
