How To Not Use PowerPoint And Slide Decks. Prohibit slide decks. This sounds extreme, but the nuclear option could be the quickest way to change your meeting culture for the better.

But that slide was child's play compared to the three-foot wall chart the military uses to explain its gajillion-step process for developing, buying, and maintaining gear.

WASHINGTON — Gen. 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 ...