“Death by PowerPoint” is alive and healthy in corporate meetings around the world. The bad news is that we will have to sit through insufferably long and boring presentations for a long, long time.

A common refrain among business people is, “PowerPoint sucks.” They don’t mean the slide presentation software itself, but rather the way too many presenters use it. They mean boring presentations.

When Microsoft Windows crashes, it pops up what techies call “the blue screen of death.” But there’s another deadly blue screen that businesspeople are even more familiar with. You know the one: The ...

I never expected to make a career out of building executive presentations. When I went to college in the mid-1990s, I was a fine art major, much to my parents’ concern. But it was that same love for ...

From left, top row: David Brown, mission specialist; William McCool, pilot; and Michael Anderson, payload commander. Bottom row: Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist ...

Microsoft's PowerPoint is a part of every fed’s daily life. A tool that, with side effects akin to visual NyQuil, turns even the most high-energy group into a room full of yawning Prince Valiums ( ...

Less lecture, more projects and problem solving on the horizon in Marine schools. (Lance Cpl. Zachary Candiani/Marine Corps) WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Marines and those who teach them will see more direct, ...

Implicated in 2 space shuttle disasters. Banned by a combat commander in Iraq. Making sense of our collected and stored information is hard enough. Does PowerPoint thinking make it harder? The New ...

Imagine youre at another Pentagon briefing and the program manager throws up one of those death-by-PowerPoint presentations - an eye chart that taxes your patience and makes your lids droop. Now ...

You would think that Mark Glackin didn’t like PowerPoint at all. Ask the advertising vice president his thoughts about Microsoft‘s tool, which he’s used to spruce up his presentations for the past 12 ...