The Meeting That Was Over Before It Started
Victor Draemont on the moment he learned to read a room before anyone had spoken — and what it cost him to act on wha...
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It is not a technique and it is not patience. It is that the first hour contains information that stops existing the moment I speak.
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Almost never in the meeting. Understanding where it really happens changed how I spend my time more than any other single thing.
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Not always. But the correlation is strong enough that I have made a habit of finding out who is not talking, and why.
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