Wired magazine this month features a story about how PowerPoint, that ubiquitous business and training tool, is being used to produce events that are a cross between competitive sport and a new art form.
Pecha-kucha, Japanese for “the sound of casual chatter,” was developed by a couple of British architects, Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein. The rules are simple:
- Each pecha-kucha participant delivers a PowerPoint presentation.
- Each presentation must comprise of 20 slides, no more, no less.
- Each slide must be displayed for exactly 20 seconds.
- Consequently, each presentation is exactly six minutes and 40 seconds long.
I believe the designers of pecha-kucha should be awarded the Nobel prize in economics. If this spills into the business world, global productivity will skyrocket as death-by-PowerPoint meetings are cut short.
In training, pecha-kucha may help keep learners focused. “Missed the slide on how to land the plane? I guess you shouldn’t have glanced at your Blackberry, bud.”
Pecha-kucha is catching on. Events are springing up in many cities. You can find out more about pecha-kucha here.
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