Napoleon had a great scriptwriter and bad barber
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
You’ve probably sat through hundreds of them in your time. Hours of PowerPoint type talking, gigabytes of bullet-pointed slides and a few charts that carefully combine the unintelligible and incoherent. If you’ve worked in corporate life over the past few years, you’ll have seen it all. Dull content gingered up by the occasional use of,…
Not long after his arrival in the USA, Albert Einstein was invited, by the wife of one of the professors of mathematics at Princeton, to be guest of honour at a tea. Reluctantly, Einstein consented. After the tea had been served and people had eaten their cucumber sandwiches, the over-excited hostess, thrilled to have such…
We do love light-bulbs! They represent ideas, innovation and positivity. In our free Prezi template this month, we have used a simple light-bulb layout to help you translate your content into an engaging, well-organised and inspiring presentation. By following this structure, you will help your viewers to follow your message, understand the sections of the presentation and how…
It’s not often that a golfer makes me laugh. And even then it’s usually clothing related. I love the game but loathe the fake press conference ‘insight’. And I don’t blame the golfers. Journalists often like the easy option in a press conference and rehash tired old cliches and long-dead ‘incidents’ looking for a scoop….
Jan Schultink is the Founder and CEO of Idea Transplant, a presentation design firm that creates sales, conference, and investor presentations. He updates his blog every day with brief posts giving random yet practical suggestions on how to improve your presentations. Having previously been a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Co, and made the transformation…
How often do you hear that a book has changed someone’s life? Chances are, it hasn’t. It will have been one particular section that made you stop in your tracks, and think… Or even just one little turn of phrase that resonated and remains with you long after you finished reading the book. A few…