Dann writes:

More Power than Point. “PowerPoint (or “presentation software”) has become the lingua franca of American business. It's also become the problem with American business, according to Inc. columnist Adam Hanft. [Inc.com]

I read this and said to myself “I agree”, but instead of reading the Inc. article, I read on.

Hanft is calling on American businesses to produce more “sharply distilled, fact-based thinking”. I couldn't agree more. However, one of the symptoms of a disease he has coined “distractulitis” is heavy reliance on PowerPoint. While this is most likely true, PowerPoint itself is not the problem. I have attended many presentations where a PowerPoint presentation was simply a guide for the larger presentation consisting of white boarding sessions, videos, live examples, and lively discussion. PowerPoint promotes reuse of previously published material, which may be a problem in some cases.

I agree here, too. Most presentations I've seen in the last calendar year consist of a person rereading the PowerPoint. Those people should be forced to read this [Amazon Link]

Read Dann's site for the rest. Dann, I couldn't agree more. I'm letting this serve as reminder that I should be paying a little more attention to what I present and how it's presented. I wonder how many of us would be brave enough to post some of our PP files…