There are a lot of standard impersonal documents dealing with world trade (a Portuguese law-firm presentation, engineering specs for the Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant in Taiwan) and trains (a description of "track-to-earth resistance test" for rails, a memo about last spring's PATH fare increases).
I'm glad I didn't end up at that consulting firm, assembling presentations to advise large companies on whether to buy other large companies.
Drawing on theories of surveillance and interaction ritual, we explore the incentives (disincentives) to analyst participation during the question-and-answer session (Q&A) which concludes firms' results presentations.
Plans for the bronze Ram statue were unveiled over the weekend, with five construction firms giving presentations to the the state's chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, a firebrand Hindu monk accused of instigating violence against's the state's Muslim minority.
And: "Where do I buy some of those logs?" Afterward, as other firms gave presentations, he sat down in a restaurant with his team, and, sensing victory, said, "One thing that can attract you to a girl is if she's very attracted to you.
Representatives from Reilly Partners, a search firm, gave a presentation to union members in Las Vegas.
"I never see a human being do that move who's not running for office," says Jeffrey Davenport, a speaker coach who works for the presentation firm Duarte.
But the firm's impressive presentation charting the many changes over time to Rockefeller Center has done little to persuade preservationists that it would be appropriate to enlarge the storefronts along Fifth Avenue and diminish the red-granite setting of Prometheus.
In the autumn of 2008 Sequoia Capital, a big venture-capital firm, produced a presentation for the companies in which it had invested that included a slide with a picture of a gravestone.
AT A recent conference for offshore wealth managers in Geneva, Basil Zirinis of Sullivan & Cromwell, a law firm, began his presentation with a discussion of events in Iraq, where Islamist fighters were advancing on Baghdad.
Better to laser in on a recent encounter that required considerable executive presence — a meeting with a leader in the firm or a presentation to a group of clients — and request an assessment on your body language, speech and delivery, attire, or command of the room.
