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Pilita Clark: There are costs to letting gasbags dominate a meeting

My favourite article, in New York magazine, revealed inter alia that Kahn is a very wealthy wine connoisseur who speaks Mandarin and lives in a Manhattan apartment building once said to have housed Marlon Brando.

One of the many fine things about working on a daily newspaper is the remorseless deadlines. They make it difficult for would-be wafflers to indulge their instincts in meetings because, generally speaking, there simply isn’t enough time.Article content Not long after Joe Biden became U.S. president, the New York Times published a lengthy account of how he worked and who he relied on most in the White House.

Donilon is by no means the first quiet but influential Washingtonian. Dick Cheney was often called the most powerful vice-president in U.S. history when he served under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. Hunt said Stevens was a “formidable operator” who had the gift of “being able to stay silent in meetings unless he has something important to say, a rare quality in Whitehall.”Article content

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