When you have to dumb things down, make ideas more vanilla so a larger group will swallow them you become average at best...and often look ridiculous in the process. While entertaining...it also destroys any chance of getting meaningful change to happen.
Three takeaways from a presentation I attended today...
1. Standing behind a podium takes a lot away from the presentation...makes you look less confident.
2. There's no need for slides if you have great content and a compelling delivery.
3. Less is better- less words, shorter sentences...make your point quickly...no one has the time for more.
Enough said...