Presentation Ace Gifts

Lethal Presentation

'Dammit, Hawkins, stop until you get rid of those insufferable hiccups!'

When Managers have a Four Seasons pizza.

"And as we study this list, one thing is clear... my wife is doing groceries with my sales report."

"Timmy, thank you for your science report..."Yawning is Contagious.'"

'And were there a point to your proposal, Henderson - What would it be?'

"You're losing the audience. Switch to the Powerpoint presentation."

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

'Which 'win' is ours? Because the one on the left looks bigger.'

"I'm razzled, but not dazzled."

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

'Now THAT'S a presentation! Great delivery, great graphics, and he moonwalks from the room.'

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

"Fantastic presentation! All of the investors loved it."

'He was only reaching for his powerpoint presentation pointer.'

"Whereas we used to display losses in shocking and offensive red, we now display them in warm and comforting toasted almond."

"It's confusing when everybody has a pointer."

Nerd tryouts.

Blue sky thinking

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

'These are the end of year figures recollected in tranquility.'

"One of the most compelling graphic presentations I've ever seen!"

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

'Maybe the reason we don't have those 'off the chart' sales anymore is because our charts are too big.'

'On the plus side we've saved money by getting all the numbers on one graph.'

"Are you sure you want to present your ideas in the form of an airplane?"

Failure/Due Diligence

'I see you're still trying to get the staff enthused over the weekly meetings.' (Meeting offers free coffee, free snacks, eye-popping charts, exciting videos and free idea pads).

He then drew a number of smaller pie charts behind the bigger chart. That helped to put it into perspective.

"For cryin' out loud, Frank, we don't have all day! Cut to the cheese!"

'It's perfect, but can we see it in white?'

'I won't lower myself to the level of my opponent.'

Although not felt by everone, Wanda's powrful jargon sent seismic shock waves through some of the more geologically unstable department in the organization.

"As you can see, our corporate structure is turtles all the way down."