Comments on: How to Host a Power Lunch http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/23/how-to-host-a-power-lunch/ Connecting the dots ... Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:10:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/23/how-to-host-a-power-lunch/#comment-436 Anonymous Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:33:19 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/23/how-to-host-a-power-lunch/#comment-436 The host decides when to begin discussing business. This can start with rolls & butter, the salad, or the entre, or left until dessert. Let the host be in control and "go with the flow." The host decides when to begin discussing business.

This can start with rolls & butter, the salad, or the entre, or left until dessert. Let the host be in control and “go with the flow.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/23/how-to-host-a-power-lunch/#comment-435 Anonymous Wed, 03 May 2006 00:59:34 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/23/how-to-host-a-power-lunch/#comment-435 It's artistic license not irony I believe. Having been to that restaurant I am sure that Ms Seid needed to use the "wrong" seat for filming purposes. The camera operator would have been shooting towards the outdoor light otherwise. As to the etiquette from when to start talking business in SF, LA or Sacramento, I've noticed that colleagues talk business throughout lunch but when I am being hosted by a boss or higher, or a skilled sales rep, the meal conversation is casual and the heart of the discussion does not come up till coffee and desert. It’s artistic license not irony I believe. Having been to that restaurant I am sure that Ms Seid needed to use the “wrong” seat for filming purposes. The camera operator would have been shooting towards the outdoor light otherwise.

As to the etiquette from when to start talking business in SF, LA or Sacramento, I’ve noticed that colleagues talk business throughout lunch but when I am being hosted by a boss or higher, or a skilled sales rep, the meal conversation is casual and the heart of the discussion does not come up till coffee and desert.

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