{"id":7933,"date":"2012-04-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/04\/04\/i-totally-presented-to-an-executive-the-wrong-way\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T07:00:00","slug":"i-totally-presented-to-an-executive-the-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120404-00\/?p=7933","title":{"rendered":"I totally presented to an executive the wrong way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/gray_knowlton\/\"> Gray Knowlton<\/a> wrote an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/gray_knowlton\/archive\/2010\/09\/22\/how-to-present-to-an-executive.aspx\"> how to present to an executive<\/a>.\n As you might have guessed, I&#8217;ve done it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/05\/07\/8464281.aspx\"> completely the wrong way<\/a>.\n Many years ago, I was part of a group presenting to a senior-level executive. I was the one who wrote the document establishing the background for the topic and laying out the various options with their pros and cons. I wasn&#8217;t the one doing the actual presenting, but I was asked to attend anyway, just in case the senior executive had a question that the presenters couldn&#8217;t answer.\n For the duration of the meeting, I sat in the back and knitted.\n As it turns out, I wasn&#8217;t needed. But at least I got some knitting done.<\/p>\n<p> (I was commended for the quality of the document I had written, so don&#8217;t think I was just blowing off the issue entirely.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, Gray Knowlton wrote an article on how to present to an executive. As you might have guessed, I&#8217;ve done it completely the wrong way. Many years ago, I was part of a group presenting to a senior-level executive. I was the one who wrote the document establishing the background for the topic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some time ago, Gray Knowlton wrote an article on how to present to an executive. As you might have guessed, I&#8217;ve done it completely the wrong way. Many years ago, I was part of a group presenting to a senior-level executive. I was the one who wrote the document establishing the background for the topic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}