Doing a presentation that sucks?

I’ve been asked to do a presentation on a products’ performance to The Big Guys. The brief is rather well-defined: Tell the story in 1–2 slides, including sales, graph(s), potentials in short and long term and conclude.

1–2 slides?

I mean, 1–2 slides ??

That will require a 9 point font, 16 lines per slides and charts squeezed into corners.

Not something I know how to wrestle myself to do. I tend to put some pride in presenting well – and everything I know about cognitive models yells that this is not what I want to do.

But if top brass have gotten so used to seeing stuff this way (*shudder*) and as they’re going to get the material in advance to prepare on – is that what I have to do anyway?

I believe I will force myself to compromise quite heavily in what I believe is the wrong direction – I’ll have to use more than two slides but I’ll make myself force enough information on each to keep it down to a (in their terms) acceptable minimum of slides.

No 10-20-30 rule here...

*sigh*