(2013-01-22) Tunguz Biggest Professional Challenge Of My Career Communication

Tomasz Tunguz: The biggest professional challenge of my career - communication.

Suddenly, I was working with a smaller team, managing massive ambiguity in job definition, time allocation and decision-making.

far and away my biggest challenge was effective communication. I simply couldn’t articulate my points in convincing ways

Consultants must deliver persuasive arguments to many different levels of leadership in many industries across disciplines.

One friend in particular just handed me a book, which as I found out later is a sort of consulting bible, the Minto Pyramid Principle. The MPP is a book of design patterns for making arguments

The communication styles at Google and Redpoint were polar opposites

Google preferred an engineer’s communication methodology, which is the scientific method verbalized.

Contrast this building structure with the inverted pyramid structure found in journalism, in consulting and at Redpoint which all begin with the conclusion.

This idea is called the inverted pyramid.

A distilled attention grabbing and focusing communication style. (See SCQA)