Presenters – clip art is not a requirement
While flipping through the Oracle presentations about the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, I came across some examples of meaningless clip-art. I know not everyone can have Steve Jobs’ level of presentation slickness, but it seems really odd to me that someone actually thought: “You know what will help get our message across? An image of two golden stick figures with a huge measuring tape.” or “A stick figure with a huge paint roller really brings home our point!”.
If this was some local presentation I wouldn’t have been too surprised, but this was during a presentation on how Oracle will manage their $7 billion acquisition. This scenario is definitely one where you want to be bringing your communication “A game”. The weird thing was that I only see this type of clutter on one of the seven presentations.
I’d recommend that whoever is in charge of creating the slides get a copy of Presentation Zen or similar books.
