Monday, October 18, 2010

It's the ppt stupid

Powerpoint may make the whole business world stupid, but it's here to stay for a while. So much that understanding Powerpoint dynamics on speech is an important practical issue within business interpretation study. A new book published in France, trailing an earlier book in the USA liking ppt to stupidity is a good reminder of formulas, recurrent patterns and easy to forecast ways of speech delivery of speakers using a ppt presentation. Practice leads to perfection, maybe, but laying out plain issues and facts are the real gist of curriculums, granted one goes through formal training. That is why books deriding ppt stupidity (and I personally tend not to disagree) are potential reads of interest for strategic purpose. As liaison interpreting means catering to both ways of communication, lucidity toward how ppt induced speech impacts the dynamics of Q&A is also an important territory of awareness. Maintaining a personal debriefing book - can be a private blog - is a way to make all this thinking about many thing crystallizing  into tangible awareness of the whole.

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