100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying

By Sarah Cooper

Categories: Business & Money, Humor & Entertainment

Why become the smartest person in the meeting when looking like it will do? Expanding on a viral blog post, comedian and former Google designer Sarah Cooper presents a hundred mock strategies for surviving meetings, conference calls, presentations and other corporate rituals. Drawing on her years in Silicon Valley, Cooper's illustrated parody targets business buzzwords, office politics and management clichés, from asking whether the group can take a step back to filling whiteboards with meaningless diagrams.

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• Hillary Clinton: “I was just totally blown away by how in her words his words could be understood as even more incoherent and frankly unbelievable. Now, before she started doing that, she wrote two books based on her time working in corporate America... One Hundred Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings and two years later, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings, Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women, and you know, obviously I wish that had come out sooner.”