The Art Of Plain Speaking

This is a guide for anyone who wants to connect better with people in the workplace by speaking clearly and with purpose. It is a result of five years at Charlie Corbett’s consultancy, Bullfinch Media, where he helped convince executives that speaking plainly, thoughtfully, and behaving with humanity, is the best way to win business, boost morale and advance careers. It provides carefully detailed wisdom on how to write well, speak publicly and stand out in your job, as well as how to craft compelling communications, make the best of social media and handle the press. The Art of Plain Speaking aims to improve the experience faced by many in the modern workplace, a world where senior management are entirely absent from the shop floor – replaced by indecipherable emails from HR – and where people speak in esoteric corporate riddles, believing that sounding clever is more productive than speaking clearly.

Memoirs and lectures of the author, Collector of Customs and Central Excise, Calcutta and Chairman of the first Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Commission.

CONTENTS The Broad Church Religion as a Fine Art Darwinism and Divinity Are We Christians? A Bad Five Minutes in the Alps Shaftesbury's "Characteristics" Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees" Warburton An Apology for Plainspeaking

Excerpt from Plain Speaking Therefore, if in this or succeeding papers I say some what hard things, I beg my readers to believe that it is not out Of a hard heart, careless of giving pain, but a sad heart, knowing that pain must be given; and that if bitter truths need to be spoken, they are better spoken by an Optimist than a pessimist, by a straightforward Christian woman than by a cynic or a laughing philoso pher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.