Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sheryl Sandberg, and General James Mattis all ban PowerPoint from meetings. Bezos uses 6-page memos instead, Mattis said PowerPoints "make us stupid," and the practice pushes teams toward real-time problem solving rather than polished slides.
You want to know why Elon, Jeff Bezos, and US generals ban PowerPoints from meetings? Because they're a waste of time. You go over useless crap that could be sent in advance and then people can just review it. I don't mean to keep rambling here, but I went through a PowerPoint presentation this morning and on the meeting people were trying to read crap on the slide that I can read myself faster and it's taking them like 10 minutes to go over something I'm reading in, no joke, 30 seconds because it's bulleted. And I'm like, I can read this myself, move on to the next topic, and I just cut them all off.
Yep. So Sheryl Sandberg did this back in the day. So at Facebook, she was like, no PowerPoints. But then everyone interpreted it as no PowerPoints in the whole organization. But she wasn't saying that. She's just like, no PowerPoints in my meetings, right? Jeff Bezos did the same thing. He says that no PowerPoint presentation now on the S-Team. The S-Team was his best team, right? This is an email that he sent in 2004, and he ended up replacing them with the 6-page memos, right? Elon doesn't like them either. So no PowerPoint meetings must focus on real-time problem solving and not pre-baked decks. And he told all CEOs to stop wasting time on PowerPoint meetings. And then finally, I'll say General James Mattis, he says PowerPoints makes us stupid. He's So basically it makes us stupid. It encourages oversimplified thinking, right? If you want more insights like this on AI marketing and business, follow to learn more.
