Chapter 22. Liar, Liar!

Lying has always been taken seriously in the workplace, but perhaps more so today in light of top executives, politicians, journalists, scientists, and others caught in lies. Prospective business students who exaggerated or included false information on their resumes were rejected from one prestigious university a few years ago. Several politicians have shamefully fessed up before resigning from office after their lies were exposed. Top executives, too, have been forced to leave their posts when their false credentials came to light. And then there were the book memoir scandals when authors were revealed for writing false or exaggerated accounts. Still, the payoff is so great for the liar who isn’t caught that lying by ...

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