Sunday, September 5, 2010

How to Tell When Your Boss Is Lying [Communication]

Two researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Business pored through 30,000 conference calls made by CEOs and CFOs over a period of four years, studying each for word choice and delivery. The result: They figured out common tells for lying bosses.

Or, more specifically, when executive officers are lying to shareholders. But context aside, it's not hard to imagine that much of the same rules apply. News magazine The Economist reports:

Deceptive bosses, it transpires, tend to make more references to general knowledge ("as you know

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