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The You Say "To-may-to" and I Say "To-mah-to" and You Say "Pretty Weak" and I Say "Even The Great Tom Peters Can Suck" Award

56 Ideas/Suggestions for Presentation Excellence

The material in question is a PowerPoint presentation that was mentioned on The Working Smart blog. Here's what was said:

Tom Peters has a nifty little slide show called 56 Ideas/Suggestions for Presentation Excellence (Note from Vincent: this is a PowerPoint — .ppt — file). The content is great. The slides themselves are pretty weak. Ironically, he violates his own rules (e.g., "Only one point per slide"). Nevertheless, the content is great and well worth downloading.

The presentation is around 60Kb but we have some serious issues — which are common on the web pages we view here:

1. the cursive font is difficult to read and it's jarring (I made a GIF for those w/o PowerPoint)
2. too many topics per page (this is a GIF file) and you have to love item #17 — NO CLUTTER!!!!!!!!!
3. no leading between items
4. text isn't indented from the numbering
5. there is so much material, that it's difficult to retain any of it — I hope there were handouts.

When I say "even the great Tom Peters can produce material that could..." I need to point out that when you mouse over the file in Windows Explorer, it says the author is "Howie Green" and the title is really "Issue Y2K The Great War for Talent." Ooops. You mean Tom doesn't put together his own speeches?

Reader comments: I loved the suggestions in it, but what a joke. And if you look through the comments to his post, everyone is to busy falling all over themselves telling TP how wonderful he is to speak some truth.

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