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Dr Max Atkinson - On Death by Powerpoint
European Speechwriters
English - September 08, 2014 17:29 - 30 minutes - 17.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNews speeches speechwriting politics business news london Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Former speechwriter for Lord Ashdown and author of the definitive work on preparing speeches, Lend Me Your Ears, Max Atkinson pioneered academic research into effective political speechwriting. He was formerly a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and has held visiting professorships at the Henley Management College and other universities in Europe and the USA. He has estimated that poor PowerPoint presentations cost the UK £7.8 billion a year.