There's a simple phrase that fills me with dread when I hear it muttered by a senior manager in a large organization: "Can you just turn that into a couple of slides?" PowerPoint has become for many ...

My previous post, A Perfect Picture Of The Inward-Looking Organization: Death by PowerPoint, quoted an example of large layered hierarchy in a pharmaceutical firm, where PowerPoint was used by each ...

My college-age kids did get one skill in high school that I'm faintly jealous of. They learned how to use PowerPoint. Dr. Kaplan studied the use of PowerPoint over 8 months inside a large ...

Last year at a conference in Florida, I saw John Hagel, a leading thinker on the impact of social networking on business, kick off his keynote speech with a proclamation: he would deliver the talk ...

The default setting for a Microsoft PowerPoint electronic slideshow takes a viewer from the first slide, often the title, to the end or last slide. While this linear progression is one way to walk ...

On July 31, 1987, Microsoft made an announcement that would forever change the world of business communications, when, after much debate and hesitancy from its CEO Bill Gates, the company announced ...