There are lots of things they don’t teach in business schools – for example meeting etiquette.
Here is what I learned in the hard way – the bigger the meeting, the shorter and less you should speak.
Why? the more you speak, statistically more chances that one of several things will happen:
1) you spoke of something someone else hated;
2) someone misheard/misinterpreted what you said;
3) the meeting is running behind, the boss looks at the watch and looks at who’s still talking endlessly.
4) you successfully finished your long speech, only to find out that you didn’t know some key counter-evidences about to be presented next – now against you.
Anyway, you should reserve your long-winded speech for those coveted one-on-one meetings. Bosses hate other people talking endlessly in those big meetings. Well, unless the boss is your friend or supporter. In that case, he or she will be embarassed instead.
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I’ve never really thought too much about the blog name I picked – just the three things I think about a lot.
It just hit me today – I happened to have picked three very statistically male-dominant topics.
Well, I don’t want to get into any psychology stuff – I just feel that I get to explore the things in life that I really like, and I’m very happy.