Word: powerpointing
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...Romney, by contrast, appeared before a Rotary Club on Monday with a PowerPoint presentation on his economic policy. It is relentlessly detailed, almost claustrophobic in its proportion of charts to text. The subject matter is not especially unusual for a Republican: cut government spending, cut taxes, be more competitive in the global marketplace. It's just that these sorts of arid managerial charts, the lifeblood of Romney's previous career as a consultant, generally don't fit the crowd-energizing mood of the political stump speech. It's less the "Fired up! Ready to go!" chant made famous...
...same as saying economists need to change their tune,” Kolstad said. Kolstad, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, discussed climate change yesterday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government using a colorful PowerPoint presentation complete with graphs and charts. Kolstad began by identifying several common criticisms of economics in relation to climate change, including consumption, an economist’s social values, and anti-environmental cost-benefit analysis. “The climate debate tends to focus on putting in environmental energy-efficient...
...could feel so good?I’m pretty sure that a former Dunster House resident and Oscar winner (okay, Nobel Peace Prize winner, too) is to blame for the fact that this green monster has become my fourth roommate. I hold the former Vice President and his nifty PowerPoint presentation responsible for it all: for the pile of recycling-bound newspapers that now towers over my desk; for a national college magazine recommending that I shower with a friend to save water; for making me, a proud Massachusetts moderate (read: deep-blue liberal) feel like a reactionary...
...that's left of Taylorism among management consultants today is a pretense to scientific precision in whatever it is that consultants do, which generally involves parachuting into some situation, being smarter than everybody else, coming up with a solution--or at least a PowerPoint presentation--and then leaping onto their horses and galloping away. Who was that masked man? At their best, consultants see a situation with fresh eyes and bring some useful analytical tools. At their worst, they are a prestige play verging on a protection racket. Hey, Mr. CEO: Every other big company has hired McKinsey. What...
...dunno. Maybe it sounds better in PowerPoint. Or maybe he's saving the good stuff for paying customers...