Clever communications lessons

I think one of the most clever communications lessons I’ve ever learned happened in a business meeting I attended in Las Vegas. The head of our eVentures (remember eVentures? How quaint!) business unit gave a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation on all his techno mumbo-jumbo, including a target list of areas of concentration to grow the business. This target list, a brilliant blue PowerPoint slide read: SAP, IBM, EMC, ERP, ROI, Other TLAs. No one in the room knew the last one was “Other Three Letter Acronyms”. Classic.