Bob Goldman

What’s the best part of being a success?

You never have to chitchat.

As a VIP, concentrating on high-level issues, no one expects you to deal with idle chatter from the hoi polloi. It’s a tradition as old as time. No one on the team would hazard a friendly, “How about this crazy weather?” to Svein Forkbeard, King of the Vikings, if they saw him in the elevator.

He was too high up the org chart to be bothered.

For everyone else, being a big shot when it comes to small talk can accelerate your rise up the Please log in to see the rest of this story.