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On a regular basis, managers from the different national laboratories trek to Washington D.C. to present their work and to propose new research. During the early 1980s, many managers, including those from Sandia National Laboratories, where I was working, held a cavalier attitude about making presentation slides for these meetings. In fact, many Sandia managers prided themselves on waiting until the plane ride to begin creating their slides, which they wrote by hand. In effect, these managers considered themselves researchers, not artists, and therefore did not have time to worry about such trivialities as the design of presentation slides.
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Alley, M. (2013). Critical Error 7 Following the Defaults of PowerPoint. In: The Craft of Scientific Presentations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8279-7_11
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