“Open and honest” communications are rare. People typically engage in socially acceptable conversations; problem-solving brainstorms; polite and appropriate exchanges of niceties; superficial divulgences of “confidence”; comfortable discussions of daily activities/events; confluences of mutual support/agony; comedic interpretations; nostalgic remembrances of prior days (judiciously edited for the conversation at hand); malicious gossip; entertaining breaks of humor; or [...]

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After my most recent foray (back) into “Higher Education”, this statement from the Economist really resonated with me:
What’s wrong with business school is not that some MBAs cheat. It’s that they don’t even feel compelled to lie about it. That may be because business schools operate as, well, businesses that bring in lots of revenue [...]

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