Busy Week

It has been a busy week for me, and sleepless nights too. Is perfectionism a weakness? I still remember there was one session, i told one of my committee, please don't be too perfective in every aspects, look at the time you have, and look at the tasks you got on hand, find a balance in between. Clearly stated that perfection is good in many situation but priority comes first. I have an event last week, the event has to be prioritized due to certain reason, we can't miss it, we can't lose it. Hence, started on last Monday, the content of the slide needs to be prepared and ready (till late night). Tuesday, move on with a discussion to confirm all the run down and verify the content of the presentation, everyone of us stayed until late night (and this night, slept at 4am in order to  change and draft the slide after the session).Wednesday, the last day to event and again, because of slide, end my night at 5am. After all, you may just question, why do you need to be so particular in the presentation slide? To me, it is all about the preparation. I concerned about the visualization of the slide to capture the audience attention, and accelerate their thoughts in mind to relate our scenarios. During the preparation, i questioned myself, how to improve the presentation slide, even the last night? Secretly, even during the actual day, just one session before me. I have improved my slide sequence based on certain limitations we had, and added two stacks in my slide to stronger the message presented by other speakers. Is this consider good practices or just too bad habit to keep? The feedback from other colleagues, is great. But i still keen to know the feedback from our audiences. Other parts in this event is, we see the team work. We recognized everyone's participation and contribution. Especially those juniors which surprise me for many rounds. Good one!

One of my slide's stack (still looking for improvement):


As when i thought the tiring day has ended with the closing of event. Several proposals need to be submitted within Thursday and Friday. Challenge continues, and we spent our Friday night in office together...

Two things i learned:
1. Winning in business isn't as simple as you thought. (da*n, it is so much complicated)
2. To make sure your audiences are able to visualize your presentation picture, you need an attentive slide. Next follow with your message delivery. (you have no shortcut to this)