Presentations: move from 'telling' to 'asking'

It's very rare that there's any "conversational" aspect around business presentations. Maybe that needs to change -- and fast.

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Quick question before we begin: how many people reading this have sat through an absolutely boring, insufferable presentation in the past day? Week? Month? Year? Probably quite a few.

Now quick story before we officially begin this post: my first semester of graduate school was the fall of …