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What about leave behinds?

What about leave behinds?

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What about leave behinds?

- [Instructor] As I always say, when in doubt, just do less. Show less detail, use less information, edit, remove, simplify. But without exception, the excuse I always hear, especially from my data analyst clients, is that they have to show all the data. Sometimes it's because they feel they need to back up every point they're making with minutia and details, and I can usually get them past that argument. But I never win the next, most common argument, which is that the PowerPoint, or the PDF they're creating, is a leave-behind, not just speaker support for a meeting. And this is a fair point. If you're creating a leave-behind, so you won't be there to walk the audience through the data, then yes, you may have to include more details. But, and this is critical, that does not give you carte blanche to put every detail back in that I might've just started to convince you should come out. You should still work hard to…

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