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| August 11, 2026 |
| PowerPoint and Presenting News |
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| Less Noise, More Signal |
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| This issue is about the signal lost in the noise. David Tang and I look at five metrics every CEO actually uses, cutting through dashboards that show everything and decide nothing. Laszlo Diewald explains how presentaid's Design Checker catches brand drift before it reaches the boardroom. And Maurizio La Cava
introduces the MLC Assets Portal, a single place for presentation-ready visuals that removes the usual detour through multiple stock libraries. The topics are different. The underlying problem is the same: too much friction between a good idea and a clear presentation of it. |
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| Five Metrics Every CEO Wants to Know |
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| A dashboard is not a decision. It is raw material for one. A dashboard and a decision are not the same thing. One shows you the data. The other does something with it. Think of it like a kitchen full of ingredients. The ingredients do not make dinner. The cook does, and only after deciding what the meal needs to be. A CEO staring at thirty trend
lines is akin to someone standing in a well-stocked kitchen with no idea what to cook. The best executives have quietly figured this out. They do not ask, What can we measure? They ask, What do I need to know to make the next call? That shift, from measurement to decision, is where KPIs earn their place. Not every number on a dashboard qualifies. A KPI is the number that actually changes what you do next. |
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| Gears for PowerPoint (Series 01) |
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| All these gears are native PowerPoint shapes. You can recolor them, add effects, and do more, all inside PowerPoint. Results which would have taken hours to achieve now take less than a minute! Have fun using the gear graphics, and make your audience take notice! All these gears can be rotated and resized, as required. Since they are essentially
pictures, all types of edits that you can do with pictures work with them too! |
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| Get this complete kit now, you’ll save so much time that you can use doing something else! |
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| MLC Assets Portal: Conversation with Maurizio La Cava |
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| Maurizio La Cava is Co-Founder and CEO of MLC Presentation Design Consulting, the leading presentation design agency in Italy. He is the author of Lean Presentation Design, Presenting Data, Startup Pitch Presentation, and AI Fluency, and teaches pitch and presentation strategy at Politecnico di Milano. He developed the Lean
Presentation Design methodology, combining lean thinking, cognitive science and storytelling to help corporate teams communicate with clarity and impact. Before founding MLC, he worked at Accenture and Ferrero International. In this conversation, Maurizio discusses his new MLC Assets Portal. |
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| Read the conversation here |
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You have to be curious: by Austin Kleon
"You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else–that’s how you’ll get ahead."
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| presentaid Design Checker: Conversation with Laszlo Diewald |
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| Laszlo Diewald has been working as a consultant for more than 10 years now. He started his career as an employee right after his study at the Technical University of Munich. Shortly after, he decided to become self-employed as a freelance consultant. In 2017, he founded his own consultancy, with a focus on large scale projects in
the financial sector. In parallel, he started working on presentaid, which was finally launched in April 2022. In this conversation, Laszlo talks about presentaid’s new Design Checker option. |
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| Laszlo Diewald explores presentaid’s Design Checker, its brand consistency features and practical value for PowerPoint users |
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