Roof triangle over two grouped bars, five chevrons (three right, two left) and description columns
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Pyramid & Strategy House Slide Examples
A pyramid claims a hierarchy: the levels below support the level above. A strategy house is the same claim drawn as a building — a goal in the roof, pillars holding it up, and enablers in the foundation. Both say this rests on that.
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When to use this layout
Use a pyramid when support runs in one direction. Vision resting on strategies resting on initiatives; a conclusion resting on findings resting on data. The reader should be able to point at any level and ask “what holds this up?” and find the answer directly below.
The strategy house variant is worth the extra structure when you have three things at once: one goal, a handful of parallel pillars, and a set of shared enablers that every pillar depends on. If you only have the pillars, use the pillars layout and skip the roof.
Beware the inverted case. If the levels are just categories of equal weight, the pyramid is decoration — the triangle is making a claim about support that the content does not back up.
What the layout is made of
- A roof that states one goalOne sentence, not a list. If the roof holds three things, they are pillars and the roof is empty.
- Pillars that are genuinely parallelSame level of abstraction, same kind of thing, and ideally the same number of supporting points each.
- A foundation that is sharedWhatever sits at the base must support every pillar. An enabler that only serves one pillar belongs inside that pillar.
- Levels that narrow for a reasonFewer items higher up should mean greater aggregation, not just a tidier shape.
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Where these slides usually go wrong
- A pyramid with no support relationshipThree stacked bands of unrelated categories. The triangle implies hierarchy; if there is none, use stacked rows and lose the shape.
- Overloading the roofA goal, a mission and three values crammed into the apex. Pick the one the rest of the slide supports.
- Pillars at different levels of abstraction“Grow in Asia” next to “Improve data quality” makes the structure feel assembled after the fact.
- A foundation used as a dumping groundEverything that did not fit elsewhere pushed into the base. If it does not support all the pillars, it does not belong there.
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Questions about this layout
What is a strategy house slide?
A framework drawn as a building: one goal in the roof, three to five strategic pillars as columns, and shared enablers in the foundation. It is used when a strategy has both parallel thrusts and common prerequisites.
When should I use a pyramid instead of a list?
When the items support each other in one direction. If you can point at a level and name what holds it up, a pyramid adds information. If the levels are just groupings, a list is more honest and easier to read.
How many pillars should a strategy house have?
Three to five. Two rarely needs a house; six or more and the columns get too narrow to label, which usually means some of them are sub-pillars.
What is the difference between a pyramid slide and the Pyramid Principle?
The Pyramid Principle is Barbara Minto's method for structuring an argument — conclusion first, then supporting reasons, then evidence. A pyramid slide is one way to draw that structure, but the principle applies to every slide in a deck, including ones with no triangle on them.