Death by Powerpoint l Improve your presentations with Alexei ...

Death by Powerpoint l Improve your presentations with Alexei?Kapterev

Posted by Brandyourway on June 2, 2012 ? Leave a Comment?

Few weeks ago at Information Systems class we watched this slide-show made by Alexei Kapterev. It?s about how to make your powerpoint presentation more dynamic, atractive and interesting. I suggest you to take a look in order to improve your future slides, because as you?ll read on the slide-show: there are 300 million powerpoint users in the world, they do 30 million presentations each day, about a million presentations are going on right now, ?50% of them are unbearable, so lots of people are killing each other with bad presentations now.

?You don?t grow up dreaming to become a ?presentations guru?. My school?graduation?certificate was full of B?s (pun?intended) with only 3 A?s: in compter science, in English and in history. Other subjects didn?t interest me at all. I wanted to continue studying English but then the Soviet Union collapsed and everybody suddenly decided to become economists and managers. And so did I. I majored in finance and went on to?work?at Citibank. It was a very nice job, probably one of the nicest in the late 90?s Russia. It had only one fatal problem: it was booooring. It took me 3 years to figure out that it?s not gonna be any better. So I decided to do something with my life and moved to consulting.

Consulting was much more exciting ? but much more demanding at the same time. At first I was just writing reports but then I had to go and present my findings to the clients. My first presentation was a disaster and my boss, the firm?s partner, gave me an assignment to ?figure out presentations?. It took me two years but after a while I did. Next I?d read Jim Collins? book?From Good to Great?and decided to do for a living what I found I could do best?give presentations.

In 2008 I published a presentation called?Death by PowerPoint?which to my utter surprise went viral, having been viewed by more that 1 million people as of now. It was the greatest reassurance that the path that I?ve chosen is the right one. I?m currently teaching presentations at a one of the Russia?s best business schools, doing corporate workshops, practicing as a consultant, and occasionally working with Mercator, Russia?s leading producer of corporate films, business presentations, and infographics.?

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