Half of those tips occur in most hour long meetings I already attend. When a participant in the meeting uses one of those techniques all I think is: wow, in no way did you just contribute to this discussion.
10 Tricks to be "that" person in meetings
10 Tricks to be "that" person in meetings
It embarrasses me when we have techs from other companies doing training or demos and management starts spouting this bullshit.
The problem with this statement is that you're assuming everybody's as smart at spotting bullshitters and manipulators as you. What if only 20% of people in the room noticed what they were doing and the other 80% thought they were a genius?
This is often the case and it's why strictly rational people are playing an irrationally weak hand.