PowerPoint does not have the rich image clipping and cropping tools that PhotoShop has. To take the background out of an image, you can set its background color to transparent and hope that the image edge come out reasonably clean.

Apologies. I updated the template of my blog with Blogger's new template designer, but the Disqus commenting engine did not like it. All comments are still there, but they are not visible. Bare with me as I try to sort this out.

The majority of presentations I see use "he" when referring to a customer, an employee, a user, a patient. I decided to use "she" whenever I can to compensate for this. Maybe you can as well.

Watching the disputes between players and the referee in the soccer worldcup reminds me of corporate negotiations. After the pitch presentation people start discussing the terms. Often, they are so preoccupied with their own viewpoint that they forget to listen or try to understand what the other party is saying. The same points get repeated, and repeated, and "let me explain to you one more time...". Nobody is listening, everyone gets annoyed.