I just returned from the Harvard campus in Cambridge, where I taught communication to senior business leaders enrolled in Executive Education programs. Their final project included a seven-minute ...

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

As I’ve explained in a previous post, replacing PowerPoint presentations with hard-copy briefing documents is an incredible timesaver and productivity boost, so much so that banning PowerPoint might ...