No wonder he flatly states: “PowerPoint makes us stupid.” Continue reading → “hypnotizing chickens” antics via PowerPoint. Mattis of the Marine Corps has had to ward off more than his share of PowerPoint presiding –a.k.a. That leaves only 5 minutes at the end for reporter’s questions “from anyone still awake,” notes Thomas X. PowerPoint is in fact so numbing that the media relations officials in the Pentagon call it – Hypnotizing Chickens-when they show a series of boring and confusing PowerPoint slides for 25 minutes of a scheduled 30-minute news conference. Likewise control-oriented managers have learned how to paralyze an audience in a deep freeze like trance. The suddenly “paralyzed” chicken then thwarts off predators very effectively. It’s a biological defense mechanism the chicken has evolved to quickly play dead trance-like whenever it feels threatened. The chicken would then freeze, trance-like for up to 30 minutes. Then he would draw a line along the ground with a stick or a finger outward in front of the chicken. Little Johnny would first hold a chicken’s head down against the ground so the chicken would stare straight ahead on the ground. He amazed the other kids on the farm who hadn’t yet learned the art of hypnotizing a chicken. Imagine the power little Johnny had in his finger. Here’s an idea to focus on thoughtful decision-making.
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