The other day I was working with a client on a presentation that had to be less than 10 minutes, and he was frustrated with the challenge of creating slide content for a talk so brief.

I said one thing to him that became a bit of a sea change.

“Why don’t you forget entirely about slides with text on them?”

[silence]

“I’ll bet you could be just as persuasive with your words, and your slides could be even more impactful.”