The Five and Dime

Over the last several years, we’ve seen the word “presentation” replaced with the word “PowerPoint.” As in, “I’m going to give a PowerPoint on the new product to the board.”

The issue, of course, is that PowerPoint, the computer slide presentation software from MicroSoft^®, should be used as a tool for making the presentation, it shouldn’t define what the presentation is.

That in itself isn’t the problem, the problem is that people misuse PowerPoint in a way that makes their presentations bad. They would have been better off not using PowerPoint at all. In fact, there are many people that would be much better off just talking without any visual aids whatsoever. Still, many people think it would be impossible to make a presentation without this software.

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