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