Fred wrote:
Remember that the slides are to illustrate your talk. They aren’t the talk. Nor are they the handout.
I think this point in particular tends to be forgotten all too often. My pet peeve in this area is when presenters write everything they plan to say into the presentation, and then for the presentation itself simply read back what is displayed on screen—as if they can read for me better than I can read for myself!
In mentioning his two reservations, Fred wrote:
[H]e—and maybe this is his publisher’s fault?—spends a lot of time gee-whizing Japan and Japanese culture. Talk about the bento. Talk about judo. Talk about Zen. Talk about all of these other Japanesque things that help make his point but that are likely to grate on people who live here and don’t envision Japan as some exotic wonderland of design excellence.
I suppose so, but if the title of the book is Presentation Zen, I assume the publisher is going to insist on loading it up with clever references to Japan and Japanese culture, no? To do otherwise would almost make a lie out of the title, would it not?
Thanks for the review, Fred!
