When accepting a coffee-meeting, what signs indicate to you that things are going to go nowhere? My #1: person is middle-manager bureaucrat
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(Note: not including cases where you expect person to be stimulating/fun enough that meeting is its own reward, which is 75% of mine)
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My #2 sign: person has >3x more clear need to talk about themselves than real curiosity about you. Likely means nobody listens to them.
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most can't be applied until first meeting, but yeah, I often kill brutally after meeting #1
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Your premise that a coffee-meeting *needs* to go somewhere is mostly a U.S phenomenon. The rest of the world just meets for coffee:)
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If person is interesting/fun, my exception rule applies. If not, the U.S. norm is better. Rest of world pays high social tax
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