Charlatan detection

Adrian Furnham

A chapter in The Talented Manager, 2012, pp 64-66 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The word charlatan comes from the French, meaning sellers of medicines who might advertise their presence with music and an outdoor stage. Charlatans are people who make elaborate, fraudulent and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge they don’t have; quacks or frauds. It has been said that journalists use the word guru as a polite synonym for charlatan when writing about the many self-appointed business experts.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Human Resource Management; Talented Manager; Counseling Skill; Word Picture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230369764_11

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