Is the Tide Turning on Death by PowerPoint?

I was meeting with a new client the other day who was about to show me his PowerPoint deck for a presentation we’ll be working on together. He prefaced it by saying he tried to follow the recommendations in my book to emphasize images over words.

My expectations in these situations aren’t super-high, and I assured him that the TED-Talk style is aspirational, and not every deck or every slide in that deck is going to reach those heights.

Then I saw the slides. And they were great! Big, beautif...