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(1). What you call a charge on your company card for a night at a strip club with two guys from Accounting.
“Oh, hi Alison…the $1,000 charge on my card at Wiggles? …umm…thought I would take the troops out after work for a little teambuilding event. Your office? …sure, I can come down to your office…”
(1). To weed out the meat of a presentation (a.k.a. the quote) from all of the marketing fluff.
“This all looks great, Don. But I’m having a little trouble separating the wheat from the chaff here. Can you let me know where I can find the fee? … Oh, there it is – footnote 34 in Appendix K…got it.”
(1). The main point you gleaned from a relentlessly long and confusing conference call. A key takeaway is generally addressed within the first three to five minutes of the call, followed then by an hour or so of irrelevant fluff.
“Thanks for making the call, everyone. I think it’s safe to say the key takeaway is that we need to have another call. How does next Wednesday look for everyone?”
