{"id":2238,"date":"2005-05-11T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2018-06-09T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:39:55","slug":"first-hand-second-handing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/first-hand-second-handing\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hand Second-Handing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the bizjournals.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/extraedge\/consultants\/winning_at_work\/2005\/05\/09\/column68.html\" target=\"_new\">Mastering meetings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MYTH: Most meetings are a waste of time. <\/p>\n<p>FACT: Every meeting &#8212; whether you&#8217;re a participant, a presenter, or the chairperson &#8212; represents a golden opportunity to increase your visibility as an effective communicator. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, bureaucrat, meetings are not to <i>do<\/i> something, nor to <i>reach a decision<\/i>: they&#8217;re all about <i>increasing your visibility<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So please pipe up with your eloquent digressions and anecdotes of personal achievement.  Because that will serve the real purpose of the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the bizjournals.com: Mastering meetings: MYTH: Most meetings are a waste of time. FACT: Every meeting &#8212; whether you&#8217;re a participant, a presenter, or the chairperson &#8212; represents a golden opportunity to increase your visibility as an effective communicator. Remember, bureaucrat, meetings are not to do something, nor to reach a decision: they&#8217;re all about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20133,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/20133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}