Death and taxes In the U.K. we pay car tax — we pay lots of other taxes as well. Every private car owner pays the DVLA (driver vehicle licensing authority) about £200 per year — the exact price depends on the car. (This complicated approach to taxation confuses the public and allows the government to […]
Avoiding Death by PowerPoint
Selling ideas We spend our time selling ideas. We invest hours persuading people to give time, energy and resources to our projects. Then we spend more time letting them know how those projects are going. Ensuring that the all important funding and investment keeps on coming… The weapon of choice It doesn’t matter where you work — with the odd […]
Selling an Idea
Presentation skills I guess that you — like me — spend lots of time selling ideas. Trying to get funding and resources for the projects and improvements that you want to do. My standard approach is to bang a load of information into PowerPoint and hope for the best. I want to show the man […]
If You Must Write on Your Slides…
Legibility You may have done the most comprehensive piece of analysis known to mankind. You might have discovered the secret to untold wealth, health and happiness. However… All the analysis in the world is worthless if nobody understands it and acts. So it doesn’t matter which font, image, graphic, table or chart you are using in your […]
PowerPoint, Smoke and Mirrors
A very important presentation I attended a power meeting yesterday. Lots of highly paid consultants in blue suits and incredibly shiny shoes came to tell us where we are going wrong. I sat there for an hour, looking at the screen. Slide after slide after slide passed me by. They were very impressive slides The technique […]