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Slides do make a difference

So Keith’s post on supercharging your PowerPoint got me to thinking, I mean I was thinking real hard and crappy slides do make for a bad presentation – even if you are an expert and entertaining. I think sometimes, no slides might be better.

Take a look at these two geography slide sets – which lecture would you rather listen to? I think you could tell the same story with both slide sets, you may need to move the order around a little in the photo version though.

Why Geography

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or this text filled one?

1.1 – 5 Themes Of Geography

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October 31, 2009 by Jon Gatrell

Turnarounds are more cultural than process based

Everyone’s an expert… Andee Sellmen’s presentation on 7 steps to Successful Turnaround misses a bunch of obvious items and focuses on just a few too many items most of us learned with our lemonade stands – more cash in is better than going out. Hmmm… seems reasonable, but a turnaround is more about instantiating a new culture than hiring a lead gen consultant/cash flow KING.

From my limited experience, the concept of turnaround assumes they have a product, some revenue and opportunity. So assuming that is the case, you probably need new operational processes across the board, financial controls and different people more so than a lead generation/mgt process. I’m just saying there may be a more complete way to look at it…

7 Steps To Successful Turnaround

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Check out his website – http://www.onesherpa.com/ – I guess it is a hard climb up the profitability market from these 7 tips, but apparently you can get a membership to his site and get clued in how to become cash flow positive in 30 days or whatever.

October 19, 2009 by Jon Gatrell

11 Creative Excuses for Skipping Work

While Columbus Day might be a holiday for your kids, most folks don’t get it off from work. If you need a creative excuse to skip work on Monday here are a few ideas:

11 Creative Excuses for Skipping Work

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October 11, 2009 by Jon Gatrell

Post #502: Missed the 500th, but STILL appreciative for everyone around here

So with over 500 posts and two years of hacking away at this it has been a very fun ride and it’s only going to get better from my view, since I’ve added some really good folks who are posting around here – Keith Finger, John Mecke, Stephen Smith and Sheryl Altschuler. Both Sheryl and Stephen are a little busy, but still glad to have them around, I actually caught with Stephen last night and we had a great brainstorming session and on my way home, I was thinking about what do you on my 500th post, well – I blew it since I’m now at 502 posts.

Regardless of the fact that I blew right past my 500th post, the idea to thank everyone who commented or linked back here still needs to be done. Not sure who I got the idea from – it sounded familiar in my head and I did a similar thing for my 200th post, but that post focused on the people I had in my RSS reeder and that would be really rough to do now since I’ve found so many cool people and added them in my reader since then.

So more or less in reverse chronological order of the 507 comments to date for 502 posts, 1115 tags over 12 categories – links where available in the comment:

Stewart Rogers
strategicproductmanager.com

Shiv
iamshiv.com

keithfinger
keithfinger.com

sherry heyl
concepthubinc.com

Suzy

Jason Koulouras

Marty Thompson

http://hoosiercontrarian.com/

Michelle Vandepas
divinepurposeunleashed.com

Chris Cummings
christophercummings.com

Adam Stahr
adamstahr.com

Guilda Blog
guildfa.net