{"id":820,"date":"2007-04-12T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/defining-the-office-grandstander\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T20:18:10","slug":"defining-the-office-grandstander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/defining-the-office-grandstander\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining The Office Grandstander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone&nbsp;who has worked in a large company has encountered office grandstanders in great quantity.&nbsp; Every department has them.&nbsp; Now CareerJournal.com offers an entertaining article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.careerjournal.com\/~r\/wsj\/career_journal\/~3\/108491055\/20070412-cubicle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Not Even Politicians Can Outdo Office Grandstanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Another tactic: Speak first, and often, in meetings, says Greg Milano, a sales and marketing veteran of 22 years, and act like the boss you aren&#8217;t &#8212; yet. One colleague he remembers would often <em>distribute minutes of meetings that weren&#8217;t his<\/em>, make the first toasts at parties he didn&#8217;t host and grill people with questions only he felt he was entitled to ask. &#8220;It became such an annoyance that people started to refer to that behavior by his name,&#8221; says Mr. Milano.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Make up his own meeting minutes &#8211; fantastic.&nbsp; I could give you all of the examples, but the article is worth the time to read.&nbsp; I suspect you will think of many shining examples on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone&nbsp;who has worked in a large company has encountered office grandstanders in great quantity.&nbsp; Every department has them.&nbsp; Now CareerJournal.com offers an entertaining article titled Not Even Politicians Can Outdo Office Grandstanders. Another tactic: Speak first, and often, in meetings, says Greg Milano, a sales and marketing veteran of 22 years, and act like the boss you aren&#8217;t &#8212; yet. One colleague he remembers would often distribute minutes of meetings that weren&#8217;t his, make the first toasts at parties he didn&#8217;t host and grill people with questions only he felt he was entitled to ask. &#8220;It became such an annoyance that people started to refer to that behavior by his&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/defining-the-office-grandstander\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-de","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->