Save your PowerPoint presentation as a show

Save your PowerPoint presentation as a show – Lifehacker

If you want to really impress people with your PowerPoint, save the file as a .pps

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Powerpoint: Compress and Optimize Presentations (ppt) to Decrease Size

Tech-Recipes.com – Powerpoint: Compress and Optimize Presentations (ppt) to Decrease Size

Powerpoint will save pictures in a poorly compressed format by default. By asking powerpoint to compress these pictures, you can optimize your presentations more efficently. With this decreased size you can email them and transport them easily.

Want to kill a project? Keep quiet about problems, study finds

Want to kill a project? Keep quiet about problems, study finds

June 07, 2006 (Computerworld) — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Failing to initiate “crucial conversations” may be the single biggest cause of project failure, according to preliminary findings of an ongoing study on project management.

The study, being conducted by Vital Smarts Inc., a Provo, Utah-based training firm, found that project managers’ inability to talk to people about five often-occurring negative situations frequently leads to failure. The preliminary findings were made public here yesterday at Delivering Project Excellence, a conference for project managers.

How to write a decent email

Email: an author’s guide – Blue Flavor

Popular as it is, the web is not the most-used Internet application by transaction volume. Email is. It’s also the most misused. Since it’s such an important and often overlooked component of our online lives, I’m going to step away from preaching about the web for a moment and focus on simple steps to make your email discussions more effective.

Bare Bones Project Hacks

Bare Bones Project Hacks – lifehack.org

Project managers seem to come in two flavors, maybe three. The first flavor are those who follow the PMI guidelines by the book. The second are those who get thrown into project management by way of the “someone had to do it” route. Third would be a hybrid. This addresses those last two types. Let’s talk about some of the basic elements of running a project, and while we’re at it, we will discuss a few methods for running projects that might prove helpful to you.

Bare Bones Project Hacks

Bare Bones Project Hacks – lifehack.org

Project managers seem to come in two flavors, maybe three. The first flavor are those who follow the PMI guidelines by the book. The second are those who get thrown into project management by way of the “someone had to do it” route. Third would be a hybrid. This addresses those last two types. Let’s talk about some of the basic elements of running a project, and while we’re at it, we will discuss a few methods for running projects that might prove helpful to you.

Making a (Power)Point of Not Being Tiresome

Making a (Power)Point of Not Being Tiresome – Los Angeles Times

PowerPoint is:

* Bullet Points 
* A Mysterious Jumble of Graphs and Charts

* Utter Boredom

But Cliff Atkinson, who runs a one-man, Los Angeles-based company called Sociable Media, wants to change all that.

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation : HBS Working Knowledge

Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.

Writing a Compelling Executive Summary

Bona tempora volvantur–by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Executive Summary

By now, you’ve probably already read several articles, web pages—even books—about writing the perfect executive summary. Most of them offer a wealth of well-intended suggestions about all the stuff you need to include in the executive summary. They provide a helpful list of the forty-two critical items you should cover—any entrepreneur worth his or her salt should be able to address these points in less than 100 pages—and then they tell you to be concise.

Is a messy office hazardous to your career?

Ask Annie: Is a messy office hazardous to your career? – Mar. 27, 2006

“People often don’t realize that piles of paper, boxes in corners, and stacks of stuff behind the office door can affect one’s upward mobility,” she says. “Appearances are important.”

Why? “Your office is a reflection of your capabilities,” Reiter says. “Even though a messy desk isn’t a sign of a character flaw, it does tend to give your managers and peers the impression that the job is too much for you to handle, you can’t make decisions, you are not doing the job, or all of the above.”