“PowerPoint has become the lingua franca of business meetings worldwide” says The Washington Post
July 31st, 2007Many people love to hate PowerPoint because they have sat through way too many ugly, useless, distracting PowerPoint slide shows. They may not be happy to read this article in the Washington Post : School Adds PowerPoint to Application – washingtonpost.com
“But at one of the world’s top business schools, such slide shows are now an entrance requirement. In a first, the University of Chicago will begin requiring prospective students to submit four pages of PowerPoint-like slides with their applications this fall.”
This article and others about the University of Chicago finally acknowledging that PowerPoint is one of today’s standard business communication tools will hopefully persuade others to recognize the imporatance and value of good PowerPoint slides. They call it the “lingua franca of business meetings”. I call it the standard language of business meetings.
In the article, they say Microsoft estimates that 30 million PowerPoint shows are presented every day!