You see any action items in there?
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I see “Military Victory Achieved” in the leftmost third: since I don’t think we’re there yet, looks like a lot of work yet to be done.
from the comments: Anyone who has been in business for any length of time knows only too well that the whole point of PowerPoint presentations is to show commitment to the objective without ever making concrete recommendations for which one might be held responsible at a later date should they fail.
True enough: my most pungent experience with PowerPoint was working for a senior executive who had never met a problem he couldn’t restate as a PowerPoint visual, while getting no closer to a solution. He even used the Rumsfeldism “unk unks” for the unknowns that we don’t know that we don’t know.
We plainly haven’t learned from the Challenger and Columbia disasters, both of which occurred as a result of Powerpoint’s ability to abstract away facts, the basis for decisions.