Re: Overhead and the Future

Geoff Stone DD&D Australia wrote:

> Jack,
>
> What's the matter couldnt the environmental manager, community liason manager,
IT manager, human resources manager, social activities manager, project outsourcing consultant manager, financial manager, procurement manager and probity manager all make it to the meeting or was this a lean mean fighting machine?
>
> Geoff

I'll bet that Powerpoint presentations were involved, because, well, you know, all that complicated engineering and planning stuff is hard to comprehend.

"Powerpoint is Evil" by Edward R. Tufte: <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2_pr.html">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2_pr.html</a>

This read is highly recommended by me.

The last line in this article is, "Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience."

Amen, brother.

Paul Received on Thu Sep 08 23:59:00 2005