Doctor’s Orders: “Burn Your PowerPoint Presentations”
I recently picked up Brain Rules by John Medina again, and was inspired by one of his chapter-summarizing ideas – to burn your current PowerPoint presentations and start over. I decided to let him help me say more…
Burn Your PowerPoints
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August 14th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Burn them. Good advice!
The accepted “wisdom” is that in business (and therefore schools too, because money-makers know best) you use PowerPoint as automatically as you put on a suit and tie. It is generally taken as a given that “PP” is the best way to explain things to a group of people.
PowerPoint is probably the world’s most popular business “tool.” Undoubtedly, it misused by many, but I (along with increasing numbers of its victims) say it is by design, bad for communication.
Seemingly, there are a few brave souls who dare to go against the conventional idea that PowerPoint is ‘the way it’s done.’ And they are not only from audiences who have sat through too many uninspiring and confusing ‘PP’ presentations.
I was asked to do a PowerPoint presentation recently…
Read on here: http://www.bretthetherington.net/default.aspx?pageId=574