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In the Japanese
language Nikkei newspaper yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting article featuring
stories on people who have started small grassroots movements — however
unintentional — by doing something in a unique way. One such person is Mr.
Masayoshi Takahashi who has gotten a lot of people interested in his unique way
of presenting, now labeled the "Takahashi Method."
Takahashi uses only text in his slides. But not just any text — really big
text. Huge text. Characters of impressive proportion which rarely number more
than ten, usually fewer. The goal, he says, is to use short words rather than
long, complicated words and phrases. Last year Takahashi gave a presentation at
a conference using the method or style that he created. People were deeply
impressed by his presentation — not the content, but his slides. Over the past
year, blogs across Japan have been buzzing about Takahashi and his presentation
style and people began calling it the "Takahashi Method."
Why this method?
About four years ago Takahashi had to
give a 5-minute presentation at a conference. He wanted a way to get his message
clear and powerful in such a short time and found that his method was excellent
for having people understand and remember his presentation.
