After the Columbia Shuttle broke up upon re-entry, the Columbia Shuttle Accident Investigation Board was set up to look into the causes of the tragedy. Attached is a page from the report which addressed the problems when engineers tried to present exceedingly complex technical subjects to senior management via PowerPoint slides loaded with bullet points. One of the critical slides had 10 bullet points! The Board commented as follows:
As information gets passed up an organization hierarchy, from people who do analysis to mid-level managers to high-level leadership, key explanations and supporting information is filtered out. In this context, it is easy to understand how a senior manager might read this PowerPoint slide and not realize that it addresses a life-threatening situation.
So…you draw your own conculsions from this finding.
Excerpt from the Columbia Shuttle Accidental Investigation Report
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