Outlawing PowerPoint (Was: a suggestion....)
Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Sun, 13 December 1998 20:20 UTC
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:09:48 -0600
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From: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Outlawing PowerPoint (Was: a suggestion....)
On 12/12/98 at 8:41 AM -0500, Mike O'Dell wrote: > as an aid to smaller meetings, I suggest outlawing powerpoint and viewgraphs. In all deference to JK, I agree with this wholeheartedly. Inevitably the people with the PowerPoint presentations are also those who are either trying to teach novices or do marketing presentations during sessions, which is not what we are supposed to be doing at these things. I became disgusted and walked out of NTPSEC when I had to sit through a talk on how time service works. This was justified with, "This might be review for some of you, but I think it's worth going over for the new people." It's not worth going over; if you don't understand the protocol being discussed, you don't belong in the room. I am also somewhat offended by silly borders and corporate logos on these presentations. We spend time to come to these meetings to discuss protocols, not to see how artistic you are or that your company supports any particular work. This is engineering, not marketing. I do like Scott McNealy's take on this: "We had 12.9 gigabytes of PowerPoint slides on our network. And I thought, 'What a huge waste of corporate productivity.' So we banned it. And we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in the world, if it would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings skyrocket. Employees would stand around going, 'What do I do? Guess I've got to go to work.'" pr -- Pete Resnick <mailto:presnick@qualcomm.com> QUALCOMM Incorporated Work: (217)337-6377 or (619)651-4478 Fax: (217)337-1980 or (619)651-1102
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