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20 Brilliant Tricks to Appear Smart In Meetings

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Blogger and illustrator Sarah Cooper has published a funny and very true book “100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings“. Featured below is a sneak-peak selection of 20 brilliant tricks you should totally use:

Draw a Venn diagram.

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Encourage everyone to take a step back.

Nod and keep pretending to take notes.

Repeat things you hear fro co-workers, but really slowly.

Ask "will it scale" no matter what it is.

Pace around the room.

Ask the presenter to go back a slide.

Step out for a very important phone call.

Make fun of yourself.

Ask to explain things "for everyone else".

Use more acronyms.

Put sticky notes all over your computer.

Invite unnecessary people to meetings.

Make sure your presentation has a giant, useless appendix.

Ask is we are conflating multiple issues.

Turns nouns into verbs.

Keep agreeing and disagreeing with everything.

Say "that's obvious" at things that aren't obvious.

At the end of meeting, ask if someone is going to email a summary.

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