Sarah Cooper's Guide to Making an Impression in Meetings: 100 Tips and Strategies

Dia: Amidst stress, this (kindle) book made me laugh a lot. Lots of tips mentioned are true but others are written just for laughs. You need to know what should actually be applied at work, and what is to be taken as a mere joke. Got my sister to read it as well. Funny and light hearted

Canada on Aug 23, 2023

Philip123: It’s quite funny but I preferred to stop after 20 pages. I found it not relevant and not bringing much, while I can read much more entertaining things. I heard good things from friends but it’s not a fit for me.

Germany on Jul 16, 2023

Curious Streamer: Bought this for a work Sneaky Santa event. The person who chose it read several pages aloud and it was great entertainment. If you’re stressing about an upcoming meeting, it will set you at ease.

United States on Jun 03, 2023

Megatron: Captures big tech vibes pretty accurately. It's really funny, often in an observational humor sort of way. Sometimes I'm tempted to use it as a real guide. Other times I just start meetings with it open in front of me in plain sight. Always gets a laugh. Huzzah!

United States on Dec 31, 2022

Ghadeer: I’m loving this book. It's so funny and it teaches you lots of things. highly recommended

Canada on Jul 13, 2022

Yorgo EL MOUBAYED: Produit conforme! Livré dans les délais! Je recommande.

France on Dec 27, 2021

R2D2R2D2: Vous commencerez à lire ce livre en rigolant à chaque nouvelle page (mon but premier) jusqu'au moment où vous vous appercevrez que, finalement, vous reconnaissez votre environnement professionel de tous les jours (en particulier vrai si vous etes cadre). Et ce qui était au départ une blague devient au fur et à mesure une méthode pour identifier ceux qui n'apportent rien... mais qui arrivent tout de meme à etre mieux perçus que vous! (la perception du travail est plus importante que le travail lui meme).

De là vous pouvez sélectionner certaines pages pour améliorer votre visibilité et celle de votre travail ainsi qu'identifier ceux qui usent et abusent de ces trucs pour masquer leur... inutilité.

(en image le truc que je vis tous les jours...)

France on Jan 23, 2017

J. Baldwin: To paraphrase Mike Myers's character Dieter, this book looks at me while I am naked and calls its friends.

Is it really satire, or is it a thoughtful analysis of what's wrong with corporate America? Both! Have I done some of these things? I'm afraid so. Have any of these things advanced my career? Emphatically, no. Why do I tolerate it when others use these tricks in meetings I'm in? Because I just don't care anymore.

I suggest you buy a copy for every member of your team, ask them to memorize it, and call out numbers whenever someone uses one of the tricks. Eventually people simply announce the trick number instead of going through the pain of actually executing a trick.

Sort of like this famous parable: (see below as the review system doesn't allow links)

Maybe, just maybe, if we follow Sarah's lead, we can make corporate America great again.

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A man is sent to prison for the first time. At night, the lights in the cell block are turned off, and his cellmate goes over to the bars and yells, "Number twelve!" The whole cell block breaks out laughing. A few minutes later, somebody else in the cell block yells, "Number four!" Again,...

United States on Oct 09, 2016

RJT: Let me begin by saying that I have worked in corporate America for most of my career. I have witnessed first-hand the ongoing comedy of errors that is corporate culture in this country. Sarah Cooper’s “100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings” laugh-out-load hilariously explores the central mechanism, meetings, by which most corporate actors pretend to reach decisions (in fact, most decisions are made by individuals who then use meetings to get everyone else to agree). While this fully illustrated book begins with regular meetings, it also delves into conference calls, team meetings, presentations, team dinners, networking events, etc. As well as, all the associated strategies such as whiteboard tactics, conference room playbook, and what to do with your face during meetings. If you want a good laugh at the expense of corporate culture or alternately, if you want to learn how to get raises and promotions in corporate America without actually having to do too much, this is the book for you!

My favorite tactic for Conference Calls was #29 instant message other attendees during the call. This is an honored ritual in my company necessary to kvetch about whoever is running...

United States on Oct 04, 2016

Cemil Sinasi Turun: Sarah Cooper is one of the funniest writers who makes fun of life in corporate America, mostly tech related, N. Californian blend. Her style of mixing short and striking humor bits with her hand drawn cartoons is great, even for someone who comes from a country where government bans twitter and/or facebook every time someone displays such great humor.

Is her humor comparable to the famous Dilbert cartoons? I believe that is a big YES. (you are welcome Sarah, I will just make this sound like I did not get compensated by you or your publisher or both). As she says in the book somewhere: "Like most women I am not a man". That is, Sarah is a woman. I think she will one day be called by the American textbooks as the female Mark Twain!

I have been following Sarah Cooper (the author) for about a year from her The Cooper Review web site, so I am not completely unaware of her funny cartoons. Actually I bet her on twitter that I would be the first one to review (genuinely, after buying and reading the book) this wonderful book and so as promised I am delivering that review. She is way too funnier than I expected in this book. Her humor is so timely that when you read her book,...

United States on Oct 04, 2016