"An analysis in the Harvard Business Review found generic, superficial, simplistic thinking in bullet lists widely used in business planning and corporate strategy"
I don't think this is related to bullet lists. The sentence contains the same truce if we took out the words "in bullet lists".
I think its closely related to bullet lists, both as a cause of them and as an effect of them; bullet lists are a mechanism (but, to be sure, certainly not the sole mechanism) by which generic, superficial, simplistic thinking protects itself against the intrusion of meaningful, deep analysis.
I don't think this is related to bullet lists. The sentence contains the same truce if we took out the words "in bullet lists".