May 2011

May 7, 2011

My Favorite Dilbert Video on PowerPoint

This is my favorite Dilbert video. It’s hilarious because it’s true. 1. Business audiences don’t read text documents. PowerPoint is replacing text documents in many businesses. […]
May 6, 2011

3 Stephen Few Graph Makeovers. Which is Your Favorite?

I’m a big Stephen Few fan and have learned a ton about designing graphs, tables and information dashboards from his books and his graph makeovers. But there was one […]
May 4, 2011

5 Exciting Alternatives to Boring PowerPoint Charts and Tables

I was presenting the Mindworks Presentation Method to a team at Microsoft this week and I asked them what challenges they had creating PowerPoint slides. One person commented […]
May 2, 2011

The Secrets of Storytelling in the Boardroom, Part 5 – Increase Interest with the Inciting Incident

In the last blog post, we discussed the first way to incorporate storytelling into your boardroom presentation by using a story to grab the audience’s attention […]
May 1, 2011

How to Make an Impact (Jon Moon) Book Review

How to Make an Impact by Jon Moon may be one of the most useful lesser known business books around. For anyone who creates business documents […]
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