Word: powerpointed
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...institutional settings such as schools and businesses and via a handful of pay networks that serve hotels, cafes, airports and convention centers. The benefits are obvious to the traveling exec who logs on to his corporate network from an airport lounge, downloads the latest revision of a huge PowerPoint file and arrives fresh and unmussed at his presentation...
...keyboard confident from about third grade, have developed the skills and comfort with technology that are vital for success in the job market. (Trust me on this: these days, when I have to give a speech, my daughters, ages 11 and 13, turn my scribbled notes into a PowerPoint presentation.) And unlike German and Japanese students, who are talked at by teachers for most of their school years, American students learn social skills and group work in environments that celebrate diversity...
Armed with colorful posters and PowerPoint presentations, they came ready to explain their plans...
...brighter path, Hewlett says, would be to spend a few billion growing HP's most profitable division, the one that makes printers and digital cameras. There's an alternative Gillette strategy: seed the exploding digital-camera market now; cash in on lucrative printing services later. Think of all those PowerPoint presentations and full-color reports that companies across the country are sending to Kinko's right now. That, argues Hewlett, should be HP's turf. "Our printing business alone is worth more than our current stock price," he says...
...employees didn't know who he was until relatively recently. As head of Enron Capital Management--his job in 1997 and '98, when he was named CFO--he wielded his power across a very narrow band. In contrast to the avuncular Lay and the brilliant Skilling, Fastow was a PowerPoint executive whose number-crunching talent far exceeded his managerial and people skills. Indeed, when Fastow was charged with running an actual business--he was named managing director of Enron Energy Services in 1996--he botched it, and Skilling had to reel him back to finance...