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Should You Ban PowerPoint from your Meetings?

By Gerry Riskin on January 30, 2014
Posted in Law Firm Communications

According to a recent article in Philanthropy Daily, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has banished PowerPoint presentations from meetings of his staff.

Instead he requires speakers to prepare six-page summaries of what they want to say. His meetings begin with quiet periods, during which other meeting attendees read the summaries. In a 2012 interview with …

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