PowerPoint Tyranny -- Dickeson

Crux for Poor Speakers

As always, there are plenty of bad characteristics mixed in with the good in PowerPoint slide shows. For example, there are at least as many poor speakers as there are good ones. Maybe more.

Getting thoughts organized in PowerPoint bullet points in advance at least forces the mediocre speakers to think out, in advance, where they're going and to give them a terminal point; a consummation devoutly desired by those suffering an otherwise boring waste of time. That's a cynical view, isn't it? But that view detracts from the coffee breaks, luncheons, cocktail hours, dinners and private conversations where real interaction of a meeting can occur.