The next time you find yourself working hard to keep the conversation from wandering, try these on for size. Let’s concentrate on what we were talking about earlier. How about we return to the goal at hand? Let’s remember what we wanted to discuss. Why don’t we come back to that? Outside the office, many of our conversations come with agendas, even if we don’t call them that, as we saw in chapter 6. For instance, if you’re catching up with an old friend and are overdue for a life update, the “agenda” may be to jam a year’s worth of milestones into one dinner. If the conversation strays and
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