Working Backwards
Time Management
Replace PowerPoint presentations with narratives
from Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar
How to Apply This
- ** Replace PowerPoint slides with a single narrative document.**
Before conducting a team meeting, instruct the presenter to opt for a handout rather than creating a PowerPoint slide. Make it a rule to replace PowerPoint presentations with narratives, and explain to your team why it's important. - Evaluate ideas objectively.
Evaluate the idea, not the team or the pitch, and suggest ways to improve it. - Allow objections.
Whenever you or someone in a team is presenting, make sure to be open to objections. Allow your team members to voice their concerns and alternate perspectives to gain a deeper understanding of the topic that's being discussed or addressed.
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