I prefer(ed) Lotus 123 (the good Dr knows about a half dozen others)..
Texas Instrument is how I rolls 😂
Poppy cock. The HP12C reigns supreme.
Posted on 06/03/2023 4:51:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis famously said, "PowerPoint makes us stupid." Like many among today's top military brass, he sees our culture's addiction to PowerPoint as a threat to the efficiency and effectiveness of our armed forces.
Similarly, many CEOs have banned PowerPoint from their meetings, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Twitter's Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and the late Steve Jobs. Smart leaders hate PowerPoint because business presentations straitjacket meetings into a slow-moving linear direction. This discourages conversation and discussion, turning the other attendees into passive chair potatoes. PowerPoint--when used as designed--reduces attention, understanding, and, worst of all, retention.
PowerPoint presentations are even worse when presenters try to make their boring presentation interesting by adding bells and whistles, cheesy stock photos, cheap animations, and various multimedia gee-gaws. The insulting assumption is that your co-workers are like toddlers whose attention can be captured only by a dangling flashy objects.
It's time to follow suit of the generals and billionaire CEOs and get out of the PowerPoint trap. But how? PowerPoint has become so ingrained into our day-to-day business activities that it seems impossible to function without it.
In fact, before 1990, nobody used PowerPoint and business presentations were consequently rare to non-existent. As a result, meetings were shorter and more to the point, with more discussion and better decisions,
How did companies get along without PowerPoint? They used three different meeting tools built around the types of business meetings: 1) decision/discussions, 2) training sessions, and 3) public addresses,
Here are the techniques that work better than PowerPoint for each meeting type.
(Excerpt) Read more at inc.com ...
Tell-em what yer gonna tell-em
Tell-em
Tell-em What ya Told-em...
Perhaps THE greatest commentary on this topic is How Software Companies Die – by Orson Scott Card. Little has changed since 1995.
No it’s neither. It’s PEOPLE. People are human. They have failings. Sometimes you need your software guys to do a presentation. Who else are you going to have talk about the architecture of a product? Especially in the Y2K days, people were freaked out, sales guys knew nothing, prospective buyers wanted to know they would be safe. So who gives the talk? Gotta be your engineers. Unfortunately the people who have the most useful stuff to say tend to not want to do that. If you’ve got the choice of having a complete idiot who knows nothing but can talk well, or a brainiac that knows why the software will be fine but hates public speaking give the presentation who do you use? It’s gotta be the guy who knows what he’s talking about. Even if he hates it.
Used to present complicated sales presentations and complex family and homeschool ideas to groups of over two hundred just clutching pen in my hand like a rabbits foot. Changing tone of voice, looking at s d engaging members of the audience, and know one’s stuff goes a long way.
Excellent discussion on presenting.
BTTT
Heh, I just watched the movie “Fantastic Voyage” and they gave a presentation with lots of clever transparent overlays on their overhead projector! I completely forgot about them!
For those who know what they’re doing, nothing comes close to PowerPoint.
I prefer(ed) Lotus 123 (the good Dr knows about a half dozen others)..
Texas Instrument is how I rolls 😂
Poppy cock. The HP12C reigns supreme.
Oh, can’t forget Microsoft MultiPlan!
Oh, and Claris Resolve.
People called those who scheduled the events with comments like: He gave an entire 45 minute lecture without slides!
the audience thought I was incredible (almost all other presentations were powerpoint in a theater with the lights out).
Not really exceptional. Just old school and knew the audience.
THE BALLAD OF THE POWER POINT RANGER
(sung to the tune of “The Green Beret”)
Requests are made from day to day;
Briefings held and changes made.
Graphic slides, a must they say,
Power Point is the only way.
Computers crash and printers stall,
Overloading protocol.
Network’s down and soldiers cry
Briefing’s late, so heads will fly.
Pin Power Point slides upon my chest,
Full color slides, they look the best
100 slides were made that day
but only 10 made the final display.
Smiles upon the General’s face
Slides were done, looked really great
Was up all night really working late,
Just to hear the General say ....
My soldier son, your slides were great,
Briefing’s done, staff’s up to date,
One problem son, you took too long,
So put in one more change, then go on home.
So tell my Mom I done my best,
Pin Power Point slides upon my chest
100 slides were made that day,
but only 10 made the final display.
I tried the electronic ones, but...they just are not the same...:(
I love that graph. I have a printout of it on my office wall. Brilliant, just brilliant.
The primary speaker spoke for about 2 hours, then the organizers let an unpopular President Lincoln up on stage for some brief remarks. Who was the other speaker? Some guy who could keep talking for 2 hours without stopping. Sort of like a forerunner of cable news chat shows.
Hahahaha! I really loved the Life after Death by Powerpoint!
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