Step 3: The Art of Vaguely Phrasing the Obvious

At this point, we have established that our meeting has been going on for approximately 3 hours. We have discussed the meeting, the purpose of the meeting, and the importance of the meeting. Now it's time to get really, really vague.

Here are the meeting goals for the next step, which is, uh, "somewhere in the vicinity of" the original objectives:

• Something to do with "reaching out" to people.
• A thing about "exploring new horizons."
• Maybe, just maybe, "synergy" will occur.

Next Steps:

1. Send out an email with the subject line "Meeting Follow-up."

2. Create a PowerPoint presentation with 17 slides that say the same thing over and over.

3. Schedule another meeting to discuss the progress made in this meeting.

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