The four minute presentation

We like to think we're super cool in the present, with faith the rate of change we deal with is unlike anything ever in history.

Surely our lightening talks and TED talks, with high speed pacing and dense information, must be recent inventions. I even wrote a Forbes article about this most interesting and new trend. But it turns out, as is often the case, the roots of an innovation go back much further than we tend to believe.

Enter the four minute men. A group of people who worked for the...