PowerPoint Makes You Stupid. Here Are 3 Smarter AlternativesAs Steve Jobs once said, 'People who know what they are talking about don't need PowerPoint.'

Inc. ^ | February 20, 2020 | Geoffrey James

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Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis famously said, "PowerPoint makes us stupid." Like many among today's top military brass, he sees our culture's addiction to PowerPoint as a threat to the efficiency and effectiveness of our armed forces.

Similarly, many CEOs have banned PowerPoint from their meetings, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Twitter's Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and the late Steve Jobs. Smart leaders hate PowerPoint because business presentations straitjacket meetings into a slow-moving linear direction. This discourages conversation and discussion, turning the other attendees into passive chair potatoes. PowerPoint--when used as designed--reduces attention, understanding, and, worst of all, retention.

PowerPoint presentations are even worse when presenters try to make their boring presentation interesting by adding bells and whistles, cheesy stock photos, cheap animations, and various multimedia gee-gaws. The insulting assumption is that your co-workers are like toddlers whose attention can be captured only by a dangling flashy objects.

It's time to follow suit of the generals and billionaire CEOs and get out of the PowerPoint trap. But how? PowerPoint has become so ingrained into our day-to-day business activities that it seems impossible to function without it.

In fact, before 1990, nobody used PowerPoint and business presentations were consequently rare to non-existent. As a result, meetings were shorter and more to the point, with more discussion and better decisions,

How did companies get along without PowerPoint? They used three different meeting tools built around the types of business meetings: 1) decision/discussions, 2) training sessions, and 3) public addresses,

Here are the techniques that work better than PowerPoint for each meeting type.

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No doubt. In a classroom environment.
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