Once you reach a certain stage in your career, you can expect to use it a lot.Ross Perot would go on TV with slickly-printed color charts, and hed hold up a chart that supported whatever point he was trying to make.And with his other hand, he pointed at things on the chart with a metal stick.But someone put these charts together on a computer and printed them out for him.
We just didnt have really good ways in 1992 for him to present the charts via computer on television. He was a spoiler in the election, but his influence transcended politics. Within a couple of years, it seems like everyone was using Powerpoint, or some competing product that produced computer-generated business graphics. Arguably there were better products available, like Harvard Graphics or even Scala, which only ran on Amiga computers. Having the ability to enter data into Excel, visualize it, and drop it right into a presentation easily made it a killer app. But critically, Microsoft released both products on the Macintosh too. He replaced it with overhead projectors, acetate sheets, and dry-erase markers, the way my old economics professor Walter Johnson used to lecture. ![]() And if you were smart, you copied down that diagram into your notes, along with anything else he wrote on that overhead. Death by Powerpoint is an instructor reading slides to you out loud for an hour or more. People like Scott McNealy ban the product when they see people using it that way. When youre trying to cram for a certification test it can be hard to avoid it, but in business presentations, its ineffective. He pointed at them a lot, but they were only part of the show. If your slides are going to be mostly text, make them like an outline, with your main points in as large of a font as possible, and supporting points underneath. If you have to drop below a 14-point font, your slides are too wordy. Its mostly a collection of numbers and if we add much more, its going to look like the back of a baseball card. But the statistics we collect let us easily compare several things and tell pretty quickly where our strengths and weaknesses are, and if were getting better or worse. By continuing to use this site, you indicate you accept these terms. WordPress Appliance - Powered by TurnKey Linux.
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