These are fantastic.<p>>3. Encourage everyone to “take a step back”<p>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.<p>>8. Ask the presenter to go back a slide<p>Because clearly the presenter doesn't know enough to give you the most pertinent information on their own slides.
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.<p>10 Tricks to be "that" person in meetings
Thing is, some of these <i>are</i> genuinely useful and smart things, in very specific contexts :P<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" <i>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</i>
Reminds me of this clip Will Arnett's Guide to Playing an Arrogant Idiot <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYs79z75MX8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYs79z75MX8</a>