Using Quotes in a Meeting

[PNWbrit]

I think more meetings should be on a chair lift cuz you are stuck there for the ride

Some people get off them early...

[Mazderati]

[MultiVerse]

Use the quotes. Meetings involving famous people quotes are a lot like Stockholm syndrome. It starts off shitty, but by the end they'll really start to like it.

[iceman]

Maybe something from Braveheart?

[reckless toboggan]

[Benny Profane]

Then he should quote Pope Urban II:

"All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested?"

This is how I open most meetings. Make sure you recite the quote while brandishing a dagger (preferably bejeweled) for maximum impact.

Then linger by the window, and muse about how heretics were burned to ashes in public in a spot very much like out there.

[dtown]

Most employees really buy in to a meeting when you use lots of buzz words, phrases, and jargon.

Use as many as you can. It only impresses them even more.

I suggest starting with something like this:

At the end of the day we should reconsider baking into our work all buzzwords, but I know bandwidth is a challenge. We need more bench strength to allocate resources to build a straw man for a new approach and create a dead on burning platform that our change agents can drive across the change network.

This is the path...will record and post back results. Love 30-40 buzz words used in a small time frame


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[Core Shot]

Skip the quotes.
Use charts graphs and pics.
No one listens or reads anymore

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Use charts graphs and pics.

Here is a good one:

[I've seen black diamonds!]

The question mark makes that quote.

Dang. I wish I were clever enough to have done that intentionally.

[ill-advised strategy]

mmm pie. You can make ur own!

[The Suit]

If one of the quotes is "Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" then you're good to go. Otherwise, no.

[JimmyCarter]

Make sure theyre properly attributed.


"Don't be sad that it's over, smile because it happened" -Adolf Hitler

"2 million people will misquote me on Facebook, but most of them won't drag their lazy ass out bed to go vote." — Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Titty Sprinkles" - Morgan Freeman

[digitaldeath]

“I just want to conquer people and their souls.”

[GeezerSteve]

No need for quotes. Here is the winning formula: Get down to brass tacks and talk turkey.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Definitely something about steak knives and Cadillacs.

[neufox47]

Definitely don’t use quotes. Unless they are mouth breathing sycophants. Then use lots.

[Core Shot]

“Screw it, Let’s do it!” Richard Branson

Followed up by this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhWi2yol...ource=ig_embed

I can’t believe sir Richard posted his own gaper crash on instagram

[back bowl]

"Third place is you're fired."

Seriously, don't fucking do it. If your employees are any kind of grownups they'll hate it and hate you. If they're kids, they already hate you and this won't change it.

Just say what you need to say, tell them how serious it is on a scale from "It's not a big deal but you need to know" to "You're fucking fired," and move on.

[billyk]

I think it is better to use props. I was working for a company in California that had been bought by a Japanese company. One day the head guy flew in from Japan and held an all-hands meeting. He was pretty upbeat, but stressed the need for us to hit our schedules, and he presented us with a gift, a very nice statue of a samurai to display in our lobby. The samurai had a fierce look on his face, and held a sword over his head.

About 6 months later, they laid us all off and shut down our company.

[reckless toboggan]

I think it is better to use props.

Was this your boss?

[mcski]

"Fuck you. That's my name"

[I've seen black diamonds!]

I think it is better to use props. I was working for a company in California that had been bought by a Japanese company. One day the head guy flew in from Japan and held an all-hands meeting. He was pretty upbeat, but stressed the need for us to hit our schedules, and he presented us with a gift, a very nice statue of a samari to display in our lobby. The samari had a fierce look on his face, and held a sword over his head.

About 6 months later, they laid us all off and shut down our company.

I think I know why you all got fired....

[XXX-er]

IME the best meeting were when we had the travel bans so the boss stayed in cow town and all the remote guys would phone in for a confrence call ... so I could surf boater talk or TGR

[billyk]

I think I know why you all got fired....

Ah, yeah, knew that didn’t look right, but spell check didn’t offer any help, and I’m lazy.