Leave-behind decks are for when the deliverable is the deck. It can be a useful tool for the company because the content is conveying information that they nee

Leave-behind decks are for when the deliverable is the deck. It can be a useful tool for the company because the content is conveying information that they need for whatever project their working on. While working for a consulting firm, I did a marketing analysis for a grocery chain--it was a 150 slide deck packed with data about each of their geographies. It's something they'll refer to hundreds of times in the future. As entrepreneurs, we're rarely delivering data in this way. it's usually our job to distill all the potential data points down to the 1 or 2 most important. It comes down to whether you're persuading or informing. For persuasion, Tufte>MBA every time.