It's also for sure going to be worked around. If team X is in crunch mode to release project Y next week and you're like, you can't do your daily standup for another two weeks gang - they're going to do the standup, it's just not going to have a calendar event and people's workflows will be interrupted, some people will be late because they're in the habit of getting notifications, etc.

At an organization this large I imagine somewhere there is always a team X with a project Y.

> Talk about infantilizing your employees.

I've worked with some middle managers that I would classify as infants.

I recently discovered that the most successful slide decks that I've pitched to upper management are eerily similar in style and verbiage to my kids' cardboard books. The higher up I go in an org chart, the lower down I seem to go in grade level. More pictures, bold primary colors, little text, etc. It's likely just some strange coincidence of my evolving style in .ppt, of course

I've been told by folks at a Big 3 management consulting firm that everything for the c-suite has to be in Powerpoint—no matter how inappropriate that is for the material—and written like it's for a child, or they flat-out won't read it. Yes, read it. The decks mostly aren't intended to ever be presented, just read.

Dall-E and thenounproject.com have been such a boon for me.

Simple, colorful graphics really add that little bit of spice to the presentation.

GPT-3 and the grade-reading-report feature in word also help hone in on the right style.

I wonder if execs think that running companies is so easy because they get such a dumbed-down report about the company all the time. They know it's all at such a limited reading level, but think that their underlings are actually that stupid.

Sounds pretty nice, good excuse to slack off for 2 weeks. "Sorry, didn't make much progress because I needed to discuss X with Y"