Decision making
Decision making
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shows that you have thought about things and that you made the sensible decision.
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Some decision charts
Some decision charts
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Decision charts. I added a few slides to visualise a decision or a trade off the store: simple
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Simple charts are often the best. I added a few slides to visualise a decision or a trade off the
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Focus on the decision
Most business meetings are about getting to some sort of decision or agreement on next steps. So
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decision about the more controversial parts of your argument Provide your logic, and provide deep
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Focus on the decision
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Convincing the decision maker
A big meeting is not the right setting to convince a single decision maker. A lot of her
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Convincing the decision maker
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Presentations are short cuts
becomes easier to make decisions. Human communication among decision makers is pretty inefficient
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, unusual, unexpected facts and insights. You want to get to a decision, you are not aiming to
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even more shortcuts to make corporate decision making more efficient, and less cumbersome, boring and time consuming. Image from WikiPedia
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Behind her back?
be that most tactical decisions are actually taken at the country level, in the local subsidiaries
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If you are pitching to a big corporate, it is important to understand how their decision making
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have that much decision power. It depends on the type of business. For example, someone can be global
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Learn from psychology to design better sales presentations
decisions emotionally. People justify their decisions with facts. Combined with 1: the numbers and
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stats in your presentation are probably be used to post-rationalize an emotional decision. They are not
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Psychological Selling". The key idea here is that any purchase is an emotional decision, facts and logic come in
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the key decision driver Peole are ego-centric: what's in it for the PERSON you are presenting to
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Speed reading pitch desks
decision is "archive/delete" instantly or keep for closer analysis. Here is how this decision got
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risks were taken care of?" Quick browse of the team page and boom, the first decision is made. Cover image by Mario Rodriguez on Unsplash
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The ponder slide
are ready for decision time. How to design a good decision slide for these people? A table: options in
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complete leaps in the dark. To make a decision you need to have all of the factors on some page somehow
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emailed around and read on screens. Strategic decisions are usually a careful trade-off between options
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Pitch advice
Some useful guidance by Jason Lemkin, a VC. Two items on the list stand out: The initial decision
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the point. The initial Yes, Maybe or No decision is made within 20 minutes. So save slides 20–200 for
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Cliche ads
step ahead of the game: Complex driving environment requires driver’s fast decision making and
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current one is a cliche visual, but also the slow-paced chess does not connect to snap second decisions that can save lives.
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A new business language?
same, but it will make business decision making easier and more beautiful on the eye.
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are documents that are used to get a smaller group of people to agree business decisions (the
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Where is the money?
are not asking for your weekly candy allowance from investors or corporate decision makers.
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Simple vs simplistic
simplistic dumbing down of the story, this the way users / buyers make decisions, and investors understand your story.
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Practical PowerPoint
main vehicle used in organisations to make and document decisions. PowerPoint decks are used for
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3 years and almost 1000 posts of Idea Transplant
Today is the anniversary of my blog. Starting it back in 2008 was one of the best decisions I ever
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Presenting the recommendations
decisions you want approved Detailed backup/rationales for decisions that are not "no brainers" (a
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suggest the decisions. Art: 1965/1 - ∞: Detail 2.289.862 - 2.307.403, Roman Opalka, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, image by Esther Westerveld
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Designing board presentations
without a purpose. Set up the agenda, and put the decisions you want taken right upfront. The
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what you want your Board to decide. Board meetings are all about decisions, not about fact sharing
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meeting. Board members are experienced executives with busy schedules that want to make decisions
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presentation challenge is now how to convince the Board that your suggested decisions are the right ones
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uncertainties in the decision. There are a number of ways to do this. The most powerful one is
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Clever categorisation
important part in the design process. Next is the decision what issues to tackle on what slides. Where
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A summary presentation should not just summarise
document is reference material, the presentation is your tool to get an important decision approved. Do not
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opportunities, etc.) If your project involves some decision (maybe even with a controversial recommendation
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summarise a document, get a decision approved. Art: Hieronymus Bosch,The Conjurer, 1475 Click here to subscribe to this blog
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decision. The opposite, a super high-level presentation with generic buzzwords is also not going to
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