Pecha Kucha, Japanese for “chit chat,” is the new communication style of telling a story using exactly 20 slides, for exactly 20 seconds each, for exactly 6 minutes, 40 seconds of presentation time.

“Students, please remember to monotonously read every slide word-for-word when you present to the class.” Said no teacher ever. As I prepare for my presentation this week at the Florida Educational ...

Howard Mall had exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk. With 50 people looking on, Mall zipped through his PowerPoint presentation called “20 Ideas You Can Steal,” which included crude drawings of ...

Meetings, and the presentations that drive them, are boring, slow and rarely effective. Walk the halls of any Fortune 500 corporation right now and you'll find many rooms occupied by people with ...

In one of the six-minute, 40-second presentations, an artist turned herself into brightly colored birds and monsters by wearing the full-body puppets she uses to entertain children. In the next, a ...

Twenty slides, twenty seconds each. In 2003, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of the design firm Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo devised a presentation format that deviated from the boring, wordy and ...