The complete idiot's guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Book

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When Louis Gerstner became president of IBM, he encountered a big company caught up in ritualistic slideware-style presentations (c)
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Slideware helps speakers to outline their talks, to retrieve and show diverse visual materials, and to communicate slides in talks, printed reports, and internet. And also to replace serious analysis with chartjunk, over-produced layouts, cheerleader logotypes and branding, and corny clip art. (c)
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PP convenience for the speaker can be costly to both content and audience. These costs result from the cognitive style characteristic of the standard default PP presentation: foreshortening of evidence and thought, low spatial resolution, a deeply hierarchical single-path structure as the model for organizing every type of content, breaking up narrative and data into slides and minimal fragments, rapid temporal sequencing of thin information rather than focused spatial analysis, conspicuous decoration and Phruff, a preoccupation with format not content, an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch. (c)
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The appropriate response to such vacuous displays is for people in the audience to speak out: "It's more complicated than that!" 'Why are we having this meeting? The rate of information transfer is asymptotically approaching zero,"... (с)