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Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Re: Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Post by rs186 »

xandrius wrote: post #12

Blaming the tool for poor/lazy use of it is a cheap and easy attack. At the end of the day PowerPoint is nothing special, it's just that many people start preparing a topic/subject by making bullet lists. If you're lazy, your job is done: you copy 1to1 that list into a sequence of slides and call it a day. If you're slightly less lazy, you might look for images/graphs/content from somewhere else to support your prese…

I don't think you get the article's point at all, almost like you only read the title but not the content.

Re: Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Post by rs186 »

netsharc wrote: post #10

Jeff Bezos doesn't belive in toilet breaks or healthy working environments either... when is the next clickbait "Billionaire c*t does this, maybe you should too?" article?

Surprise, this article is not a clickbait, but full of good arguments that people agree with.

Re: Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Post by politelemon »

Upvoter33 wrote: post #18

There will be many negative comments here so let me add a positive: writing helps you think. More so than making ppt. My guess that it is helpful in some cases to force this level of detailed thought.

The purpose of presenting isn't for you, it's for audiences. The thought process or lack of it will happen either way, and can be accomplished either way.

Re: Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Post by dathinab »

> PowerPoint is for selling not truth seeking

so true, but they can also be good for "overviews/shallow introductions"

the main issue is that some presentation programs are just way to clunky to use them for use cases like 6 times a year with low time investment create shallow introduction presentation (without needing to spend a lot of time to "learn" how to use the tool, that wouldn't be worth it for 6 times a year)

so outside of "selling" (or conferences etc.) the introduction/shallow overview point kinda dies, too.

As a side note how the f* did MS manage to make (web) Powerpoint in their Office360 suite so bad?

Re: Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Post by baxtr »

malthaus wrote: post #14

nothing grinds my gears more than "management wisdom" like this and people who then attribute success to small details like that. amazon could have thrived the same way had they used powerpoint, maybe even more. we will never know. also, different people communicate differently. dictating 6-pagers makes you select for people who prefer that, therefore having less diversity in thinking.

Exactly. The best argument for me is the vast number of companies that have thrived with PowerPoint.

Re: Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Post by hansmayer »

malthaus wrote: post #14

nothing grinds my gears more than "management wisdom" like this and people who then attribute success to small details like that. amazon could have thrived the same way had they used powerpoint, maybe even more. we will never know. also, different people communicate differently. dictating 6-pagers makes you select for people who prefer that, therefore having less diversity in thinking.

It was a long-standing policy of Bezos to force this approach to explaining your ideas and I think it had contributed a great deal to Amazon's success. For all the complaints about Bezos, one cannot deny he actively built that company and is far from your typical corporate, employed manager, who spills their perls of wisdom on Linked. You see, powerpoint can be a great tool, but it can and will be misused by your typical grifter. Why explain a concept in detail and expose it for discussion, when you can tack on a few vague lines in combination with a few cool pictures and please the so-called 'reptilian brain'? I suspect the liberal usage of powerpoint enables the current dominance of grifters accross tech, and consequently causes a reduction in overall quality of the product (or service).

Re: Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

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Post by Quarrel »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #28
flappyeagle wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not hiring morons also reduces diversity in thinking

can you show that intelligent people think alike?

This is a damn good point.

I suspect you're (implied, perhaps) correct, that not hiring morons increases diversity of thought. I certainly hope so.

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