The CFO Cuts You to Six Minutes
Choose the best move when presentation time is suddenly reduced.
You are presenting a $420k procurement automation pilot to Finance. Your original 12-minute deck has 14 slides: market context, current process, cost model, vendor comparison, implementation timeline, and decision ask. The CFO cuts your time to six minutes because the meeting is running late, but the budget decision still happens today. Finance review What do you do with the six minutes? Protect the story spine: current cost, key evidence, decision ask. Strong move. You preserve the what-is to what-could-be arc and give the CFO a clean decision path. The sacrifice is that some context moves to appendix, but the audience…
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