Although the book is out of print, the advice from the 3M Meeting Management Team, in How to Run Better Business Meetings, is still pertinent.
- “The controller is the diagnostician who determines when and where the company is ill.
- The manager is the surgeon who operates on that ailment.
- The surgeons need a diagnosis, and not a course in anatomy. The simpler and more focused the [financial] presentation, the better.
- The most creative job the financial presenter can do is select the meaningful data and present them in sharp focus.
- This makes for shorter, more lively presentation, and does a better job of preparing the managers for their work as surgeons.”