Watched a presenter last week open (first slide and everything) with “Well, let’s tell you what this seminar is NOT about” and proceeded to go through a pretty comprehensive list of what he would NOT cover. We all have things we don’t...
Presenter with PowerPoint (common). Presenter wants to move around a bit (!) and wants to have a visual to support his/her point (!) and doesn’t want to be blinded (!). So far so good. Only now we have an issue with how to transition through The Beam...
I’ve seen a rash of presentations in recent days that have recycled PowerPoint slides. The mere fact that I know this is a problem. But it usually manifests itself in words as well as the faulty visual. Some examples:Presentation date...
A girl was flirting with a boy. This went on for several weeks. The girl found out the boy was seeing someone else. She got red-hot mad and told her friend about it. “But I thought you told me he wasn’t your type and you...
In two words: They ChangeWe tend to be myopic in our views of our future. We often cannot imagine the opportunities before us. Therefore we aim for our best guess at the future, and it is almost never right. Just ask a 4-year-old, or an 8-year-old,...
