And the enemy is : powerpoint ! Very True !

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We've met the enemy - and it's PowerPoint


by Elisabeth Bumiller

<table id="fullBodyHolder" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td id="leftBodyHolder"> General Stanley A McChrystal, the leader of American and Nato forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy. It looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.

"When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war," Gen McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter.

The slide has since bounced around the Internet as an example of a military tool that has spun out of control.

Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession.

The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation tool of charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"PowerPoint makes us stupid," General James N Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.)

Brigadier General H R McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

"It's dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control," BG McMaster said in a telephone interview. "Some problems in the world are not bullet-isable."

In BG McMaster's view, PowerPoint's worst offence is not a chart like the spaghetti graphic but its rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a conflict's causes) that take no account of interconnected political, economic and ethnic forces.

"If you divorce war from all of that, it becomes a targeting exercise," he said.

POWERPOINT RANGERS

Commanders say that behind all the PowerPoint jokes are serious concerns that the program stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making.

Not least, it ties up junior officers - referred to as PowerPoint Rangers - in the daily preparation of slides, be it for a Joint Staff meeting in Washington or for a platoon leader's pre-mission combat briefing in a remote pocket of Afghanistan.

Last year when military website Company Command asked an army platoon leader in Iraq, Lieutenant Sam Nuxoll, how he spent most of his time, he responded: "Making PowerPoint slides."

When pressed, he said he was serious. "I have to make a storyboard complete with digital pictures, diagrams and text summaries on just about anything that happens," Lt Nuxoll said. "Conduct a key leader engagement? Make a storyboard."

Despite such tales, "death by PowerPoint," the phrase used to described the numbing sensation that accompanies a 30-slide briefing, seems here to stay.

The program, is deeply embedded in a military culture that has come to rely on PowerPoint's hierarchical ordering of a confused world.

"There's a lot of PowerPoint backlash, but I don't see it going away any time soon," said Captain Crispin Burke, an army operations officer.

In a telephone conversation, he estimated that he spent an hour each day making PowerPoint slides. In an initial email message responding to the request for an interview, he wrote: "I would be free tonight, but unfortunately, I work late (sadly enough, making PowerPoint slides)."<table id="modalWrapper" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td>
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EVERYONE IS USING IT

US Defence Secretary Robert M Gates reviews printed-out PowerPoint slides at his morning staff meeting.

General David H Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says that sitting through some PowerPoint briefings is "just agony" nonetheless likes the program for the display of maps and statistics.

He has conducted more than a few PowerPoint presentations himself.

Gen McChrystal gets two PowerPoint briefings in Kabul each day, plus three more during the week.

Richard C Holbrooke, the Obama Administration's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, was given PowerPoint briefings during a trip to Afghanistan last summer at each of three stops - Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif and Bagram Air Base.

At a fourth stop, Herat, the Italian forces there not only provided Mr Holbrooke with a PowerPoint briefing, but accompanied it with swelling orchestral music.

President Obama was shown PowerPoint slides, mostly maps and charts, in the White House Situation Room during the Afghan strategy review.

HYPNOTISING CHICKENS

Commanders say the slides impart less information than a five-page paper can hold, and that they relieve the presenter of the need to polish writing to convey an analytic, persuasive point. Imagine lawyers presenting arguments before the Supreme Court in slides instead of legal briefs.

A widely read attack on PowerPoint in Armed Forces Journal last summer by Thomas X Hammes, a retired Marine colonel, entitled "Dumb-Dumb Bullets", underscored criticism of fuzzy bullet points.

"Accelerate the introduction of new weapons," for instance, does not actually say who should do so.

No one is suggesting that PowerPoint is to blame for mistakes in the current wars, but the program did become notorious during the prelude to the invasion of Iraq.

As recounted in the book Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks, Lieutenant-General David D McKiernan, who led the allied ground forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, grew frustrated when he could not get General Tommy R Franks, commander of American forces in the Persian Gulf region, to issue orders that stated explicitly how he wanted the invasion conducted, and why.

Instead, Gen Franks just passed on to Lt Gen McKiernan the vague PowerPoint slides that he had already shown to then Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld.

Senior officers say the program does come in handy when the goal is not imparting information, as in briefings for reporters. The news media sessions often last 25 minutes, with five minutes left at the end for questions from anyone still awake.

Those types of PowerPoint presentations, Dr Hammes said, are known as "hypnotising chickens". The New York Times

 

[Cestbon]

All wasting time by looking at the slide arrow here and there. No one willing to give instruction. Just like PAP style called Tai Chi.

 

[Leongsam]

It's a micro$hit product. I've never used it in my life.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Don't blame the tool. Blame those who mis-use it. the soldier responsible for that slide should be court marshalled.

 

[Ramseth]

That's sensationalized stuff. The problem is with the strategic mapping, not with the program or platform for presentation (in this case PowerPoint). It's clear that it was cut and paste onto PowerPoint. PowerPoint can display such graphics but could never be used to produce such graphics. It's more probably produced on a program like Visio first. It could have been converted PowerPoint, Word, Acrobat etc.

 

[SIFU]

It's a micro$hit product. I've never used it in my life.

yeah yeah.

what an egoistic moron:oIo:

u dun use microsoft = they are shit
u dun watch soccer = it is a dumb game
u dun stay in spore - this is a dumb country

fuck you lah:oIo:

u wanna try remove your immunity to receive infractions and see how many shit u will get??

 

[elephanto]

yeah yeah.what an egoistic moron:oIo:
u dun use microsoft = they are shit
u dun watch soccer = it is a dumb game
u dun stay in spore - this is a dumb country
fuck you lah:oIo:
u wanna try remove your immunity to receive infractions and see how many shit u will get??

Actually, the original samleong who created the sammyboy.com homepage was a very different character.

This fake ah neh who bought over the kopitiam when the sex site was split continued to use leongsam's iconic avatar & moniker.

But other than advise/advice, the rest of his idiosyncracies are pure shit ....
Well said SIFU ! Up you !!!

 

[Rogue Trader]

That's sensationalized stuff. The problem is with the strategic mapping, not with the program or platform for presentation (in this case PowerPoint).

You basically said it. One way analysts add value in business is being able to identify and articulate complex problems to lazy idiots (snr managers and directors).

 

[Leongsam]

Don't blame the tool. Blame those who mis-use it. the soldier responsible for that slide should be court marshalled.

It's a stupid tool created by a company that produces crap.

Smart people can see through the smokescreen. Idiots get dazzled by the hype.

 

[Ash007]

It's a stupid tool created by a company that produces crap.

Smart people can see through the smokescreen. Idiots get dazzled by the hype.

What about iworks? Pages, numbers and keynote I find is surprising easy to use. Cost are cheaper then the M$ office suit as well.

 

[ChaoPappyPoodle]

That one looks like Jackass' quaterly attack strategies laid out in full glory.

 

[M.Bison]

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[Cestbon]

yeah yeah.

what an egoistic moron:oIo:

u dun use microsoft = they are shit
u dun watch soccer = it is a dumb gam
u dun stay in spore - this is a dumb country

fuck you lah:oIo:

u wanna try remove your immunity to receive infractions and see how many shit u will get??

I like your style of speaking up to Sam !
Up up your point.

 

[M.Bison]

u wanna try remove your immunity to receive infractions and see how many shit u will get??

On the contrary, you can report his posts.

 

[Rogue Trader]

It's a stupid tool created by a company that produces crap.

Smart people can see through the smokescreen. Idiots get dazzled by the hype.

my point is it is not the tool. Give that same dummy Apple Keynote and he can still come up with a crap presentation deck.

 

[RonRon]

Power point is enemy of all big institutions... who makes the best power point presentation is consider that this person have better knowledge about one specific issue.

two point 1) Power point utilization is being distorted by self marketing promotion 2)it should be utilized as a tool an not as path to a self promotion

 

[Ramseth]

Ron Ron, how come you look like Goh Meng Seng twin brother now?

 

[kensington]

But they inspired the Thai Army to come up with their paranoia...

 

[elephanto]

This is fucking KOOL, this Thai Mind-map on how to deal with the colored t-shirt mobs......, steady man, Kensington !