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10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings
- swah 12y agoReminds me of this clip Will Arnett's Guide to Playing an Arrogant Idiot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYs79z75MX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYs79z75MX8
- brixon 12y agoSounds like a good drinking game or at least a bingo game for pre-noon meetings.
- dasil003 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xEuihUWSE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xEuihUWSE0
- MoistDinosaur 12y agoHalf of those tips occur in most hour long meetings I already attend. When a participant in the meeting uses one of those techniques all I think is: wow, in no way did you just contribute to this discussion. 10 Tricks to be "that" person in meetings
- SDGT 12y agoI think my PM's have this printed out on a cheat sheet they bring to each meeting. It embarrasses me when we have techs from other companies doing training or demos and management starts spouting this bullshit.
- dariopy 12y agoIf you don't out them, it's still a win for them.
- lhnz 12y ago> When a participant in the meeting uses one of those techniques all I think is: wow, in no way did you just contribute to this discussion. The problem with this statement is that you're assuming everybody's as smart at spotting bullshitters and manipulators as you. What if only 20% of people in the room noticed what they were doing and the other 80% thought they were a genius? This is often the case and it's why strictly rational people are playing an irrationally weak hand.
- kevando 12y agoI love this - for more than any other reason - because I can't tell if it's a joke or not.
- btilly 12y agoThe URL contains a subtle hint about whether or not it is a joke.
- nlavezzo 12y agoThis is the most accurate funny thing I've read in a very long time.
- callum85 12y agoI can't tell if this comment is a joke or not.
- kevando 12y agoIs this a safe place? Can I admit that I actually use some of these? Actually, lets back it up; I need to draw a venn diagram.
- johnnyg 12y agoThis is a joke right?
- meowface 12y agoLet's take a step back here. So, you're trying to tell us this is some kind of joke? No, I don't think so at all.
- johnnyg 12y agoSo 25% of the time it is a joke? That is 1 in 4 times...
- larrydag 12y agoMaybe we could use the lawyers from my divorce to figure this out.
- darylfritz 12y agohmm.... lawyers..... from your divorce...... to figure this ooouuuuuuuuttttt....
- bitJericho 12y agoBut does this scale?
- pizza 12y agomy keyboard silently weeps
- AndrewKemendo 12y agoThese are fantastic. >3. Encourage everyone to “take a step back” This one is the best cause it is so damn effective at getting everyone to pay attention to you without you having to say anything of substance. >8. Ask the presenter to go back a slide Because clearly the presenter doesn't know enough to give you the most pertinent information on their own slides.
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- DrStalker 12y ago“take a step back” is also the right thing to say in a lot of situations; it's very easy for people to get lost in the details of one proposed solution instead of deciding which solution is best or even what the exact goal is.
- exelius 12y ago> Because clearly the presenter doesn't know enough to give you the most pertinent information on their own slides. Actually this is often the case. Most people who have never worked in management consulting are terrible at building presentations.
- dreamweapon 12y agoThe smartest trick of all: not to work for companies where everyone feels a need to "appear smart" during meetings.
- dsnb 12y ago5/10 my research group "leader" -- conceited fool
- nlavezzo 12y agoThey should make a poster of this. I'd buy several and hang them in each of our conference rooms.
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- 011110111111111 12y agoYou've successfully captured the management style of Jean Luc Picard!
- Shish2k 12y agoThing is, some of these are genuinely useful and smart things, in very specific contexts :P To paraphrase a recent experience of my own, a manager calling a meeting with the dev team "we need to re-arrange the javascript in our headers" "step back a bit, what problem are we trying to solve?" "pages need to load faster, rearranging headers makes pages load faster" "step back a bit, why do they need to load faster? Why is javascript the problem?" "Clients have complained about graphs not loading" checks the server logs, sees internal server errors causing pages to crash (those which don't crash on the server side are loading instantly), goes to fix the actual problem
- cema 12y agosome of these are genuinely useful and smart things, in very specific contexts This is why one using them appears smart, I would think. Sometimes more than just appears.
- Thekiks 12y agosadly, all of these would/do actually work in the blue-chip firm where I work. I think it's time to resign...
- egoebelbecker 12y ago#11. Skip meeting. Actually get work done.