Week 004

Storylining & Slide Writing

Pyramid Principle

• Organise into main ideas
• Populate sub-ideas

• The trick is to work together as a team
• Don’t get stressed about perfection: it just needs to be good enough.
• Be clear in the language used
• Repeat for a pattern if it helps engage audience

Almost always lead presentation with conclusion first

• Very rarely do you present from bottom-up, i.e. present the insights first, and build the arguments leading to the conclusion

Adam Grant’s proposed to start with the counter-arguments first

• For BCG, you are asking for trouble if you don’t float the ideas with client prior the meeting
• Only rarely will you get aggressive reaction (from the rare individual)

Practice

Why Sense8 ?

• Sci-fi-ish television series by the Lana and Lilly Wachowski
• Remember Matrix ?
• Story about 8 psychically linked individuals
  • Chicago, LA, Berlin, Delhi, Seoul, Kenya, Stockholm, Sao Palao

Cinematography

• Remember the ground-breaking special effects of Matrix ?
• Coupled with breath-takingly massive sets involving thousands in events like Pride Parade in Sao Paolo

Story

• Beside the rich background of each of the 8 diverse individuals, we get to see the interplay of characters with each other
• Set against a global conspiracy

Daring social commentary

• With the different cultural backgrounds of the main characters, we see how we may grow up in vastly different surroundings but all driven by very similar life goals
• And against the polarising views for and against LGBTQ+, the Wachowski got to celebrate the beauty of same gender love and sacrifice