Chapter 88. Add Value
Why bother to speak if you have nothing to add? And yet people do, all the time. They repeat what they said before. They rephrase earlier contributions. They say things that are completely meaningless. Why? How do they think this is helping? And why do they think they were asked to contribute if they have nothing useful to say?
Listen, if you want to be well respected, you should have listened to what was being said, read the information you were given, researched the background, thought about the issue—and formed an opinion that you can back up. On top of that, you should have come up with creative solutions, inventive suggestions, original approaches, and constructive ideas. Are you trying to impress people or aren’t ...
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