Business and Civility

[madurobob]

The thing about civility in business is that, for the most part, it's an email and phone conversation world, nowadays. You don't know the person on the other side very well, and you're only engaging with them for one reason - to get something accomplished for your firms, collectively.

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The good knock-down drag-out fights I get to have are internal. We've got close to 50,000 people worldwide, and they're all classic capitalist middlemen trying to protect their patch of profits. That I can deal with, although it gets a little rancorous sometimes. It's the politicians who erect barriers for the fun of it who I declare open season on!

Amen to that. Some of the most profanity laced discussions I've been part of outside of a bar have been with one of the CFOs of the company I work for. And I thought I already knew all the proper uses of **** and ****! But, when we went on a customer call, he was Mr Rogers reincarnated.

 

[IllegalArgument]

Be careful; I've heard that some of those guys can't be trusted.

Sad part is that I have a friend in the State Department, he has to explain to people that their money is gone.

He has to do this at least once a week. It's been an amazingly effective scan.