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PowerPoint slides are the key for every business demonstration. Keeping the slides clear, self explanatory and interesting will give half of the success to the presenter.

There are lots of way to make the slides more presentable and a lots of tips available to achieve success. But what are the DON’Ts in PowerPoint presentation?

Don McMillan an Engineer, a Stand-Up Comedian gives some valuable tips on DON’Ts while presenting a PPT in a funny video.

Bonus video clip on Corporate Math

When I was going through my mail box, I found this forward mail which I received long back.

This mail is about the programmer’s reaction when something is not working. The list gave me a smile.

20. That’s weird.
19. It’s never done that before.
18. It worked yesterday.
17. How is that possible?
16. It must be a hardware problem.
15. What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?
14. There is something funky in your data. OR It’s a data problem, not a program problem.
13. I haven’t touched that module in weeks!
12. You must have the wrong version.
11. It’s just some unlucky coincidence.
10. I can’t test everything!
9. THIS can’t be the source of THAT.
8. It works, but it hasn’t been tested.
7. Somebody must have changed my code.
6. Did you check for a virus on your system?
5. Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
4. You can’t use that version on your system.
3. Why do you want to do it that way?
2. Where were you when the program blew up?

And the number one thing all Programmers say when their programs don’t work:

1. It works on my machine.

I too made a few comments that are in the above list

How about you?

Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices today!

This is a story of an elderly carpenter who had been working for a contractor for many many years. He had built many beautiful houses but now as he was getting old, he wanted to retire and lead a leisurely life with his family. So, he goes to the contractor and tells him about his plan of retiring. The contractor feels sad at the prospect of losing a good worker but agrees to the plan because the carpenter had indeed become too fragile for the tough building work. But as a last request, he asks the old carpenter to construct just one last house.

The old man agrees and starts working but his heart was not in his work any more. He had lost the motivation towards work. So, he resorted to shoddy workmanship and constructed the house half-hearted. After the house was built, the contractor handed over the front door keys to the carpenter and said, This is your new house. My gift to you. The carpenter was shocked and upset. Had he known that he was building his own house, he would have done a better job! Now, he would have to live in the house, which is not worth staying.

Think of yourself as the carpenter. You work hard every day but are you giving your best? We put our least to the work we don’t like or do not have interest in. Later, we get shocked at the situation we have created for ourselves and try to figure out why we didn’t do it differently.

Enjoy your tasks and carry on your responsibilities with pleasure and not with pain. Life is a do-it-yourself project. Do your job enthusiastically and with devotion, a positive output and a pleasing life will certainly be on your way.

Once upon a time the government with a ruling party XYZ, had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.

Ruling Party XYZ afraid that, someone may steal things over the night. So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Now they have got a new question. “How does the watchman do his job without instruction?”. So they created a Planning Department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

This lead them to raise one more question “How will we know that, the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?” So they created a Quality Control Department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.

When it comes to salary, they have got a new question “How are these people going to get paid?” So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer; and then hired two more people.

One more question added in the row “Who will be accountable for all of these people?” So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

After an year, they said “We have had this command in operation for one year and we are ,$10,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost.”

So they laid-off the watchman.

Does this story remind you something. Yes you are right, this is the current situation in IT industries.