Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, How to Handle Meeting Killers, Chapter 4, The Silent Plotter.

Here we go. And then. The The Silent Plotter.

I love it.

I don't have any doubt that people know what we're talking about.

Well, we've talked about several behaviors already about, you know, meeting killers, people's behaviors and meetings are just not effective or productive at all.

And the silent plotter is another one of these hideous

folks that we're going to talk about today. The sort of passive aggressive who

says, oh no I'm not doing anything wrong I'm in the meeting I'm paying attention

and then privately

afterwards they go and talk you down and they they don't actually contribute

because they don't want to say what's really true on their mind which is they

think this is dumb because they think everything is dumb because they're passive aggressive and

we're continuing the series that came that comes from a Wall Street Journal

article we rarely like articles that are in popular business newspapers and magazines because they don't

suggest good ideas because they're not actionable and because they they're wildly

off the mark but this one is actually pretty good and we're going through a

series we've done the

jokester and the dominator the naysayer and guy by the way guys these are not our

terms they're the journals terms and this came in the 15 May 2012 edition it is

available to subscribers non- subscribers at least it was for a time

it may have been long enough now that you can't get it but we'll tell you enough all you need to know.

And to be clear we we both read the Wall Street Journal every day.

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