Tag Archives: Clarity

Clarity, clarity, clarity

They don’t give Pulitzer prizes for earnings releases. Or annual reports. Or conference call scripts. But if public companies were to be judged on efforts to communicate with investors, the judges’ list of criteria would surely include clarity. The top three standards might be accuracy, timeliness and clarity. This is the stuff of investor relations. And after all, [...]

PowerPoint goes berserk

As investor relations professionals, we’ve all seen PowerPoint slides that get just a little bit out of control. Too many bullets, too many words, too many pictures – the CEO makes one more addition – and a visual aid turns into a visual Frankenstein. For your weekend enjoyment, I thought I’d share this slide – [...]