I see a lot of that at my job. Worse, actually. For a big proposal
presentation, a ppt deck of over 200 slides was put together to fully explain and present our solution to the customer, but it was deemed to be too much by sales (correctly so) and was whittled down to about 25 slides plus another file as the appendix.
Whittling it down to the final version took a few hours with 8 or so people on the phone. It was ridiculous.
It's not so much powerpoint, it's the whole concept of group editing ANYTHING. Someone who is knowledgeable on the topic does the first draft. An expert does the edit. The REALLY GOOD Expert finalizes it and you're done. Sometimes skip one of those steps.
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PowerPoint is a corporate killer. Consummate time waster. I’ve been on a
-- RoswellGAHokie
Feb 08, 2024 at 09:26 PM ET
RoswellGAHokie
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02/08/24 09:26 PM ET
Self Help Singh will set you straight
-- 6GHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 04:56 PM ET
6GHokie
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02/09/24 04:56 PM ET
That's all we seem to work on. Work here is just going from deck to deck
-- ElbertoHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 02:43 PM ET
ElbertoHokie
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02/09/24 02:43 PM ET
you should hire McKinsey
-- MrBayAreaHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 12:15 PM ET
MrBayAreaHokie
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02/09/24 12:15 PM ET
And the last slide will be a long list of who to fire and outsource jobs to**
-- Dan1993
Feb 09, 2024 at 01:52 PM ET
Dan1993
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02/09/24 01:52 PM ET
Consultants are another entity I’d like to ban, but one thing at a time.
-- RoswellGAHokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 01:04 PM ET
RoswellGAHokie
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02/09/24 01:04 PM ET
I see a lot of that at my job. Worse, actually. For a big proposal
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-- Late 80s Hokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 09:11 AM ET
Late 80s Hokie
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02/09/24 09:11 AM ET
there's a graph for that **
-- bigbadbird
Feb 09, 2024 at 08:01 AM ET
bigbadbird
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02/09/24 08:01 AM ET
Bezos banned it at Amazon
-- Vienna_Hokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:47 AM ET
Vienna_Hokie
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02/09/24 07:47 AM ET
PPT should be a tool for the meeting, not the focus of the meeting
-- turkeywinghokie
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:38 AM ET
turkeywinghokie
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02/09/24 07:38 AM ET
Good for you! When I worked, I constantly fought to cut the number of ->
-- HOKIERIT
Feb 09, 2024 at 08:00 PM ET
HOKIERIT
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02/09/24 08:00 PM ET
I was kicking around creating a PowerPoint Engineer Cert program
-- Happy Dog
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:31 AM ET
Happy Dog
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02/09/24 07:31 AM ET
Close on messag(es). Does it stand alone? Move on. Chart owner weak?**
-- ColoVT82
Feb 09, 2024 at 07:02 AM ET
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02/09/24 07:02 AM ET