When I first heard about this, I thought it was a brilliant idea. The alternative, perhaps the norm these days, is PowerPoint-driven meetings. I find this frau

When I first heard about this, I thought it was a brilliant idea. The alternative, perhaps the norm these days, is PowerPoint-driven meetings. I find this fraught with so many problems. Firstly, while most people receive a lot of training/education on how to write well, the came cannot be said for putting together decks of slides. Some people are great at it, most are not. Secondly, condensing everything onto a few slides allows for people to skate by on some sort of 'impression management.' If you put down the right buzzwords, maybe some diagrams, it may resonate with your audience but it does not guarantee that you or they have a detailed understanding of the important details, or even the same understanding of what the important details are. And thirdly, the presentation is distributed outside the meeting as a static document, shorn of context, and more likely to be misinterpreted. Not to mention, during the presentation, people are more easily distracted as you go through the content, compared to if everyone just reads a memo in the allotted time. Equalizing the level of preparedness for the meeting is also a great benefit, although that's a more general problem.