Breaking the Code

Adrian Furnham

A chapter in Management Intelligence, 2008, pp 46-47 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract All skillful people have learnt graciously to accept hideous presents; to comment on appalling dress-sense with tact; to applaud a dire performance. Through irony, wit and inflection it is not difficult to both save face and also give feedback. But you need to know the code. So “We must get together for lunch sometime” is best understood by replacing sometime with never.

Keywords: International Business; Truth Change; Personal Business; Economic Psychology; Past Success (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230227439_10

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