First Rule of Business Presentations: Don’t Aim For Lame

The following three things are guaranteed to make me tune out and start daydreaming:

1.  Dinner conversations involving 401k allocation and/or wedding dresses
2.  Group musical numbers on American Idol
3.  Bullet points that appear/disappear via Power Point’s “spiral in” and “fly out” animated features.

All three items on this list are incredibly lame.  Luckily, the first two are avoidable.  The third, unfortunately, is an everyday part of my white-collar world. 

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