Monthly Archives: November 2006

Misuse of PowerPoint

Edward Tufte is the pre-eminent leader in the field of analytical I attended last fall with high expectations that were met and surpassed. In Tufte I found a voice that could eloquently describe the vital need to focus on the analytic aspects of design and presentation, areas all too often considered too intangible or unimportant; [...]

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Taking a Meeting

At The Motley Fool our new main office has 12 conference rooms. Those rooms typically are used for one hour sessions six to ten of them per day. That’s a lot of meetings, or so I thought until I read about Marissa Mayer at Google who takes on average 70 meetings a week. Wow! That [...]

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Introducing CAPS

So, the company I work for, The Motley Fool, just launched a really cool new online game “” CAPS.The premise (as I understand it) is that there are these guys like Jim Kramer on CNBC who yell and bellow “pick this stock” or “pick that stock” with no accountability. There

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