September 10, 2003
Structured Thinking
Dave has a desire to see communication in the business world improve:
Most of us spend much of our lives in meetings and reading. I wish more of the people that drone on and on in unfocused Powerpoint presentations, or write long unfathomable treatises, would learn to apply some discipline to their oral and written communications. Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle approach to structured thinking is one excellent methodology that could help
His suggestion of using the Pyramid Principle is worth taking a look at. I personally tend to use stream of conciousness type appraoch and then edit text and arguments later. This approach is far more structured and offers an extremely powerful way to get arguments across but also to provide solid reasoning as to why those arguments are valid.
Its worth reading the comments too, for more approaches.
Posted by Paul Goodison at September 10, 2003 09:42 PM | TrackBack