Do you find it hard to keep up with all your RSS feeds? Man, I sure do. And this is just the stuff I really want to read! Forget browsing around.
Anyway, I bring this up because I missed this terrific little post by Cliff Atkinson at the very informative Beyond Bullets blog. If you haven't read Cliff's excellent Beyond Bullet Points, I recommend you do so forthwith. It's another step in the "work the whole brain" meme that's becoming increasingly popular.
In the cited post, Atkinson highlights one of the more insidious forms of corporate mind control: the PowerPoint template. You know, the "official" format that appears in practically every presentation you're forced to sit through on a daily basis. The template dictates the presentation's color, font style, font size, bullet style, and so on. As Cliff points out, this not only creates a uniform appearance (and you know how important uniformity is in corporate life), it also encourages mindlessly repetitive thinking. You know, insert title, bullet 1, sub-bullet 1, sub-bullet 2, bullet 2...
Check this out and see if it doesn't cause you to stop and think more creatively about what you're presenting and how you're presenting it.
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