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FIELD NOTE #056 | The Presentation Is Not The Thinking
The Presentation Is Not The Thinking
A well-constructed presentation suggests well-constructed thinking. The two are related. They are not the same. Formatting is a skill. Thinking is a different skill. Both can be performed independently — and in most organisations, they frequently are.
This episode examines the mechanism behind Presentation Proxy — the substitution of formatting quality for reasoning quality in the evaluation of ideas — and the gap between the presentation and the assessment: who evaluates the reasoning, when, and with how much time.
There is a name for the pattern. And…
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