My Dad's Story: Bad Management being defeated
My Dad's is a freelance graphic designer/director. Due to not quite having the right connections and having too much experience (people don't like hiring people who konw more than them and can do their job much better) he ended up working overseas, mainly turning design companies into good design companies.

He had one boss who loved details. Too much details. When giving presentations my Dads boss would insit on spending 30 mins to an hour just on design stratedgy's, then they would start showing the designs. My dad try to explain on mulitple occasions how this put off clients but his boss wouldn;t listen.

Then, one presentation, 10 minutes in of a 40 minute stratedgy explaination the "really arrogant fcuker" (my dads desciption) client stood up and said:

"blah blah blah, can we see the designs now?"

Dad's boss started going for shorter presentations after that.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 15:53, 1 reply)

Strategy.
Amen, however, to keeping it short and sweet.
( Bats, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:15, closed)