![]() The clerk eyeballed the Free Press ID dangling from my neck, smiled and decided to engage me in a conversation about one of the burning news stories of the day. It was Thursday afternoon and I was standing in the checkout line at my local supermarket when it happened. This article was published (1419 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.Just click the SIGN ME UP box in the upper left column. SUBSCRIBE: Have a Leadership Mint delivered to your E-mail every Tuesday and Friday. Today’s ImproveMINTĭon’t hide behind PowerPoint to keep your leadership thinking in mint condition. And always on guard to awake the hypnotized chickens in your life. Sure PowerPoint presentations can be useful in presenting basic information especially in maps and charts.īut as a decision –making tool, leaders have to be wary of falling into a trance, wary of paying more attention to the lightning than the rumble of thunder, wary of the rhyme and not the reason. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.” That’s “dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” observes General McMaster. Sits through a 20-minute PowerPoint presentationįollowed by five minutes of discussion and Had time to prepare to discuss the issues. Of course, the staff involved in the discussion Involved to discuss the key points of the paper. Two- or three-page summaries of key issues.Īnd then convene a meeting with either the full staff In an article for the Armed Forces Journal, Hammes, called PowerPoint presentations “actively hostile to thoughtful decision-making.” Hammes contrasted the change in decision-making process in his article: “Before PowerPoint, staffs prepared succinct And decision-making a lot more complexed. ![]() Yet the most effective leaders don’t hide behind series of graphs and graphics all organized in bullet-points. No wonder he flatly states: “PowerPoint makes us stupid.” “hypnotizing chickens” antics via PowerPoint. Mattis of the Marine Corps has had to ward off more than his share of PowerPoint presiding –a.k.a. That leaves only 5 minutes at the end for reporter’s questions “from anyone still awake,” notes Thomas X. PowerPoint is in fact so numbing that the media relations officials in the Pentagon call it – Hypnotizing Chickens-when they show a series of boring and confusing PowerPoint slides for 25 minutes of a scheduled 30-minute news conference. Likewise control-oriented managers have learned how to paralyze an audience in a deep freeze like trance. The suddenly “paralyzed” chicken then thwarts off predators very effectively. ![]() It’s a biological defense mechanism the chicken has evolved to quickly play dead trance-like whenever it feels threatened. The chicken would then freeze, trance-like for up to 30 minutes. Then he would draw a line along the ground with a stick or a finger outward in front of the chicken. Little Johnny would first hold a chicken’s head down against the ground so the chicken would stare straight ahead on the ground. He amazed the other kids on the farm who hadn’t yet learned the art of hypnotizing a chicken. Imagine the power little Johnny had in his finger. Here’s an idea to focus on thoughtful decision-making.
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