Blame the Bullets, not PowerPoint

April 29th, 2010 admin

Blog readers probably know I am not a big fan of PowerPoint presentations. I sympathize with many points in the recent article We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint , which resurrects the December 2009 story by Richard Engel titled So what is the actual surge strategy? I think it is important to focus, however, on the core problem with PowerPoint presentations: bullets. Bullets are related to the main PowerPoint problem, which is having the medium drive the message rather than having the…


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