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How to attend a meeting

  • Listen. Try and make out when people just want to talk, then just listen. Yesterday I didn't look like I was listening, and I didn't spend enough time listening, but I learned lots nonetheless. I could have learned more had I just shut up.
  • Don't get emotional. It's just business. Don't bounce enthusiastically off the walls. I am naturally positive and enthusiastic, I like that about myself, I want to be that. I do have to keep the bouncing down to a loud roar, though.
  • Expertise is not as important as loyalty. People are going to choose other people to do the work over you, despite the fact that you can do it better. Even if they have to complain daily to their boss that they have to spend so much time micromanaging the new people that they can't get their own job done. They won't even complain. They won't even think it's a problem because then are exercising their loyalty and that feels good. I do the loyalty thing too sometimes, and it is really just a once off thing that I look for expertise in. Working with people you know and like is nicer.
  • Conversely, bosses would rather work with someone they have a history with, someone predictable, than try something new. This can be a good thing if the people they are working with are the ones with the expertise, proven.

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