The Real Reason Steve Jobs Hated PowerPoint
It’s no secret that the former Apple CEO was no fan of PowerPoint. He said: “I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People confront problems by creating presentations. I want them to engage, to hash things out at the table,...
The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
Roman philosopher Seneca’s spectacular 2,000-year-old treatise On the Shortness of Life (public library) — a poignant reminder of what we so deeply intuit yet so easily forget and so chronically fail to put into practice. Seneca writes: “It is not that we have a...
Want a better decision? Plan a better meeting
Decisions are the lifeblood of organizations, and meetings are where important business decisions often happen. Yet many executives are nonplussed—at best—when describing their own experience of meetings. Some business leaders we know wonder openly how they can...