| "Let's put a stake in the ground" | Encourages people to "take a step back" | "Why don't you summarize again for everyone else?" | Nods while pretending to take notes | "Please get back to us on this" Making someone else do the work and report back. |
| Draws a Venn diagram | "At the end of the day..." | "I'm a bit of a visionary" | "I don't need the details." | "You might be right" |
| "Sorry, I was multitasking." | "How can we productize this? | PEOPLE TRYING TO LOOK SMART IN MEETINGS BINGO (free square) | Paces around the room | Translates percentages into fractions |
| Asks the presenter to go back a slide | "I think what X is trying to say is..." | "What are the 'next steps'?" | "Let's just get to the bottom line." | "We need to wrap our heads around this." |
| "Will this scale?" | "Well, thease are the facts." | Steps out for a phone call | "I can see why you might think that." | Repeats what someone else said, but very slowly |