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Law Practice

May 26, 2010

We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us!

G. Christopher Ritter and Paul Roberts of The Focal Point zero in on PowerPoint's reputation for bad presentations and how to avoid such disasters.

By G. Christopher Ritter and Paul Roberts

"PowerPoint makes us stupid." - Gen. James N. Mattis, Joint Forces Commander, Afghanistan. As quoted in The New York Times, April 27, 2010.

It looks like a bad imitation of a Jackson Pollock painting - hundreds of squiggly lines in six different colors, connecting a dozen or so clusters of "Bold ALL CAPS" text. Except for its deadly serious nature, the ...

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