You understand those subtle methods your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical queries? These tricks make them seem like they know what they’re performing when in fact they have no idea. This behavior is indeed ingrained, so refined, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, phoning it out, or compiling it into an exhaustive digest has never been attempted. As yet.

Complete with examples, and scenarios, 100 Tricks offers you about 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Sometimes Trying actionable ways to use words like “actionable,” to be able to sound clever. All sorts of meeting is definitely covered, from general meetings where you stopped paying attention nearly instantly, to one-on-one conferences you zoned from, to impromptu meetings you were painfully subjected to in the last minute. It’s all here.

Discover an easy-to-digest key guiding you on:

-How to toe nail the big conference by pacing and nodding.

-Most effective ways to pay attention to your coworkers even though still completely ignoring them.

-The key to making your presentations “interactive.”

In the event that you hadn’t noticed these behaviors before, you will see them now-from your co-workers, your managers, and soon yourself. Each technique is a mirror to the reality of what happens in meetings, informed in the form of hilariously bad advice-advice that you might just want to consider. But most likely not. But maybe.