2006-05-05

The Five Most Common Lies in Business

Lie: "People are our most important asset."
Lie: "This was a rational decision."
Lie: "We judge people by their performance."
Lie: "This is business, it isn't personal."
Lie: "The customer comes first."


Full article here.

Now which lie did you hear recently?

4 comments:

  1. My recent lie is "We judge people by their performance." Pathetic really, they should say the truth and get it over with.

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  2. " we are a very dynamic and innovative group"

    ..... from a public entity :P

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  3. actually the kuwaiti company i work for values these things. and so far, they seem honest about these things :) except the judge by performance.. maybe im bein too optimistic about it

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  4. hussa: It would be a very different world if truth was only spoken.

    krispy: don't recognize it, but I can believe it.

    anon: well there is still hope then in this world, I like to believe that also.

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