Nov 17
Back in April, I posted about the military’s use of incredibly complex PowerPoint slides and then added a link to a Jon Stewart Daily Show riff on the same subject. But now comes a very cool three-minute Ted talk by ecologist Eric Berlow called How Complexity Leads to Simplicity. Berlow makes the case that more …
Apr 30
Here’s another view of the PowerPoint debate , thanks to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show. Stewart offers a behind-the-scenes look at military’s greatest heroes who use PowerPoint to get their troops motivated for battle. This obviously provides a bookend to my posting on the subject earlier this week and hopefully brings a smile to your face.
Apr 27
If your new tires fell off after installation, whose fault would it be — the mechanic or his tools? If you’re a U.S. general, you blame the tool. At least that’s what they’re doing in an article in today’s New York Times about the military’s use of PowerPoint. Lost amid all the jokes and criticism of a …
Apr 13
My son Tyler has narrowed his college choices to two. How he got there gets to the heart of the importance of “sticky” presentations and why a two-day trip to two schools put one on the finalist list and took one pretty much off his radar. We started at Syracuse on a chilly October morning. This …
Mar 24
Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly just posted a 12-page summary of last night’s episode of Lost (the Richard Alpert episode). You can read it here if you have nothing better to do or need someone else to theorize what’s going on. I hope Lost is not going to turn out to be as complex as this …
Nov 20
My PowerPoint decks have always been heavy on the bullets. OK, really heavy. But I tried something different this week for my presentation to a conference of graduate-school financial aid professionals. I was asked by the Access Group to talk about the impact of the new credit-card legislation on their students, and I certainly could have …
Oct 24
It used to be enough as a presenter to know your audience, have strong content, practice, and repeat. Not any more. Now you have to worry about the audience Tweeting about your presentation…as you’re giving it. And sometimes the comments are being projected over your shoulder, right next to your slides. I can actually see pros …
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