In Defence of PowerPoint (and a Colleague)

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In Defence of PowerPoint (and a Colleague)
Authored by: RNKLN on Wednesday, June 18 2014 @ 22:25 pm CEST

She refers to Steve Jobs who supposedly had something to say about the use of PowerPoint and accuses him of using the Apple equivalent himself. I believe it is taken a bit out of context, though. Below is what i copy/pasted from the Presentation Zen website (which quotes from Isaacson's book). Based on this, it looks to me like Steve was talking about the use of slides (not PowerPoint) in meetings rather than in a keynote presentation such as Steve's own.

Even when I first started working at Apple in 2001, I overheard someone in my department say that you should never show up to a meeting with Steve Jobs with a deck of slides. Jobs's aversion to people using slides in meetings was well known inside Apple. “I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking,” Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson when describing meetings upon his return to Apple in 1997. “People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.” Jobs preferred to use the whiteboard to explain his ideas and hash out things with people. Former Senior Vice President of the iPod Division at Apple Tony Fadell confirmed Jobs's disdain of slides. "Steve prefers to be in the moment, talking things through," Fadell says in Isaacson's book. "He once told me, ‘If you need slides, it shows you don’t know what you’re talking about.'"

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