1. The one panelist who insists on telling their organisation’s story, regardless of what the question is:
2. Two competing consulting firms describing each other:
3. Corporate crossovers when you’re trying to explain why your nonprofit doesn’t have a commercial espresso machine in the pantry:
4. Your head of research when you ask them why every organisation has published a report on the same theme as yours, and they’re all getting released this year:
5. Your CSR funder when you tell them it’s not possible to raise school enrollments for an entire district in one year:
6. The head of fundraising when you give them a PPT that is less than 40 slides and has a font size above 10
7. A philanthropist who is being pitched organisations working with human rights activists:
8. Every Executive Director the morning after the week-long conference they were organising ends:
