by AndrewKemendo on 7/15/2014, 1:13:01 PM
by kevando on 7/15/2014, 12:55:59 PM
I love this - for more than any other reason - because I can't tell if it's a joke or not.
by MoistDinosaur on 7/15/2014, 12:55:11 PM
Half 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
by Shish2k on 7/15/2014, 2:16:48 PM
Thing 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
by dreamweapon on 7/15/2014, 1:23:17 PM
The smartest trick of all: not to work for companies where everyone feels a need to "appear smart" during meetings.
by bitJericho on 7/15/2014, 1:01:03 PM
But does this scale?
by brixon on 7/15/2014, 12:50:26 PM
Sounds like a good drinking game or at least a bingo game for pre-noon meetings.
by swah on 7/15/2014, 12:38:05 PM
Reminds me of this clip Will Arnett's Guide to Playing an Arrogant Idiot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYs79z75MX8
by 011110111111111 on 7/15/2014, 1:55:50 PM
You've successfully captured the management style of Jean Luc Picard!
by nlavezzo on 7/15/2014, 1:55:07 PM
They should make a poster of this. I'd buy several and hang them in each of our conference rooms.
by johnnyg on 7/15/2014, 12:59:21 PM
This is a joke right?
by dsnb on 7/15/2014, 1:47:51 PM
5/10 my research group "leader" -- conceited fool
by Thekiks on 7/15/2014, 3:15:28 PM
sadly, all of these would/do actually work in the blue-chip firm where I work. I think it's time to resign...
by egoebelbecker on 7/15/2014, 5:20:31 PM
#11. Skip meeting. Actually get work done.
These 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.