Active participation in meetings you showcase your talents and advance your career. in the following situation, consider how yakov appears to his colleagues. the planning session had been long but productive. yakov had been quiet throughout the meeting. he spent his time texting messages to his son on his cell phone instead of listening or asking questions. the director finished by summarizing the plan to reschedule stock offerings. everyone was preparing to leave when yakov raised his hand. “i don’t know if we covered this,” he said, “but have we talked about rescheduling the stock offerings yet? i don’t think we should wait until the fall.”

what could yakov do to make the next meeting more effective and productive?

come prepared
put the cell phone away
remain quiet

How should the environmental effects be dealt with when evaluating this project? the environmental effects should be ignored since the plant is legal without mitigation. the environmental effects should be treated as a sunk cost and therefore ignored. if the utility mitigates for the environmental effects, the project is not acceptable. however, before the company chooses to do the project without mitigation, it needs to make sure that any costs of "ill will" for not mitigating for the environmental effects have been considered in the original analysis. the environmental effects should be treated as a remote possibility and should only be considered at the time in which they actually occur. the environmental effects if not mitigated would result in additional cash flows. therefore, since the plant is legal without mitigation, there are no benefits to performing a "no mitigation" analysis.