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This post is in response to “Did PowerPoint Ruin GM?” You can skim the article, but do read the first and last lines.

Nonsense

First, the article itself makes nonsensical conclusions. Here’s one sentence:

“Here’s one way General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra can start fixing her company’s management culture: Ban PowerPoint.”

That’s followed by:

“Lengthy slide presentations have been a substitute for meaningful communication at GM since before Microsoft’s ubiquitous PowerPoint software was invented.”

So, it isn’t PowerPoint, is it?

And another sentence:

“An engineer who’d been investigating the problem presented PowerPoint slides – but apparently didn’t discuss ‘backup”’slides that made reference to five deaths and some serious injuries.”

Hmm, not the slides, but the fact that the engineer just didn’t discuss the issue.

More importantly, what did GM presenters say?

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