Is your business beseiged by meaningless Powerpoint slides?

Click the image to see it in all its frightening glory.The problem with Powerpoint Presentations is that they are designed to be printed out on pages of A4 paper. This restricts their usefulness drastically, yet "decks" like the one above are ubiquitous in business - and, it seems, the US military. The slide was culled from an article in the New York Times entitled: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Powerpoint:

The slide has since bounced around the Internet as an example of a military tool that has spun out of control. Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The report is scathing - and well worth reading. Here's another snippet:

Commanders say that the slides impart less information than a five-page paper can hold, and that they relieve the briefer of the need to polish writing to convey an analytic, persuasive point. Imagine lawyers presenting arguments before the Supreme Court in slides instead of legal briefs.

While not a million miles away from tired old PPT, Prezi.com is a great alternative. Here's an example:

Mixing Mind and Metaphor on Prezi