Not so long ago, if you wanted to get facts, insight, and solutions from a presentation, you needed to travel. That is, of course, a time-consuming and expensive way to learn, and worse, many business presentations lacked distinction, creativity, and impact. As a former executive of some of very reputable brands, I can’t tell you how often I wasted a 4-hour car journey to listen to a 40-minute presentation, only to drive 4 hours home feeling disappointed.
Today we have Skype for Business, WebEx, and a vast range of sophisticated videoconferencing platforms. We’ve ditched the overhead projectors and hotel reservations and created a world where the press of a button lets us communicate with each other in ways that are:
