PowerPoint Tyranny -- Dickeson

Used to Excess

They're not only given as presentations at trade meetings. Many companies now use them internally to present everything from budgets, to sales strategies, to the speed of binders, to the number of lost time accidents. It's so easy to prepare a PowerPoint speech and then stand there and read the slides aloud as though the audience has not already read them. (PowerPoint is the name given by Microsoft to its software package. Every other supplier of an office suite has its set of similar programs called by other names.)