Every day, approximately 30 million PowerPoint presentations are created worldwide. Approximately zero of them needed to exist. The modern corporation runs on slides the way ancient Rome ran on aqueducts, except aqueducts actually delivered something useful.
You have a thought. A simple thought. "We should do the thing differently." In a sane world, you'd say this to someone, they'd agree or disagree, and you'd move on. In a corporate world, this thought must become a deck. The deck needs a title slide, an agenda slide, a "background context" slide, a slide with a matrix that means nothing, three slides of bullet points that could have been one email sentence, a slide with a stock photo of people shaking hands, and a "next steps" slide that nobody will follow up on.
The Wall of Text: Someone pasted their entire email into a slide and then read it aloud while the audience stared at their laptops.
The Meaningless Chart: A bar graph with no axis labels, no legend, and a title that says "Performance Overview." Overview of what? Nobody knows. Nobody asks.
The Clip Art Slide: A cartoon figure pointing at a bullseye, because nothing says "strategic alignment" like a stock illustration from 2004.
The Agenda Slide: Lists everything you're about to see, ensuring maximum boredom by removing all surprise.
The "Any Questions?" Slide: There are never any questions. There are only people calculating how quickly they can get back to their desks.
The Appendix: Forty slides that nobody will ever look at, added to signal thoroughness the way a peacock's tail signals fitness: elaborately, expensively, and for no practical purpose.
The Mission Statement Slide: "We synergize cross-functional solutions to drive stakeholder value." This sentence means absolutely nothing and yet someone was paid a consulting fee to write it.
Delete the deck. Send an email. Use sentences. If your idea can't survive without animated transitions and clip art, it's not an idea. It's a decoration.