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Unclutterer has a recent post on organizing meetings - it's not solely about presetations, but it provides an occasion to note that good meetings and good presentations both focus on getting a decision made.

If a meeting is scheduled on the assumption that just getting relevant parties in the same room will magically move the organization forward or solve a problem, it will fail. Successful meetings that make good use of attendees' time have to be engineered to make decisions about what everyone should do next or to eliminate specific misunderstandings and conflicts.

In the same way, presentations that are just a massive collection of tangentially related slides are unlike to do anything but bore the audience to sleep. Good presentations are focused on presenting only the information required to effectively support a decision.

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