torsdag 23 maj 2013

Shoot the messenger

I can’t stand bad presentations. I just hate them. Countless are the times I found myself trapped in a meeting where the PPT slides boarder graphical murder. Cluttered with a superfluity of needless jargon and useless word filling, these demonstrations habitually brings no clarity to just most any issue. You feel like your mind has been blown, sadly not in a good way. Rather in the same way a balloon reacts when you try to cramp too much air into it - it pops. So do brains when infused with worthless information. They pop.

Thankfully the answer is again simple. Keep it simple. Simple. Say what you need to say, and nothing else. Has the sales gone down ten percent in the last quarter, and you need to present this in you quarterly budget meeting, don’t write all that. Say: "Sales - 10%". People will draw the rest from context, and the number will stick - THAT'S the important part!

Thankfully there is help out there. Here is an awesome presentation that everyone who is think of presenting anything to anyone should

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