Microsoft PowerPoint may be one of the programs you've used in your business for decades, with its now-familiar ribbon, tabs and easy-to-populate slides. While quickly putting together a PowerPoint is ...

If constructing a presentation can be pure anxiety, then listening to one can be sheer agony. Both sides dread the experience. It’s like a breakup talk with fewer tears and more clip art. Poor ...

Howard Mall had exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk. With 50 people looking on, Mall zipped through his PowerPoint presentation called “20 Ideas You Can Steal,” which included crude drawings of ...

Admit it. You suck at PowerPoint. These five tips show you how to use PowerPoint to make a slide show that won’t embarrass you. PowerPoint often gets a bad rap as the root cause of boring and ...

Opinion: building a talk around the type of slide show common in most PowerPoint presentations is a profoundly bad idea There are probably people who have never sat through a PowerPoint presentation, ...

While conducting my research for a new book on persuasion, I talked to Navy SEAL instructors as well as leaders from several branches of the U.S. military. Some are using my books in their classes to ...

The explorer Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the Titanic in 1985, two-and-half miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. In 2008 he stood on much safer ground on a TED stage to reveal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I advise CEOs and senior executives on leadership and strategy. While this global pandemic changed almost every aspect of our ...

How many lives has PowerPoint cost us? It's hard not to wonder after reading a New York Times story in which a parade of military brass strafe Microsoft's ubiquitous presentation software. PowerPoint, ...