[Sigia-l] PowerPoint at the gates

[Ziya Oz]

"...the University of Chicago [biz school] will begin requiring prospective
students to submit four pages of PowerPoint-like slides with their
applications this fall."

"Chicago's new requirement may provoke groans from some quarters. It could
be called corporate America's final surrender to a technology that, in the
name of promoting the flow of information, often gums it up by encouraging
bureaucratic jargon and making colorful but useless graphics just a little
too easy to produce."

"When you apply to business school, he said, using a buzz word for the best
a student has to offer, "it's only natural that your 'deliverables' be in
PowerPoint."

<http://tinyurl.com/28s2q4>

I'm delighted to finally see the normative effects of best practices so
wonderfully expressed by the academic promoters of the 'deliverables
culture'.

When will these august MBA institutions require interpretive dance (a la
SNL) for admission?

--
Ziya

"Every problem comes from a solution."