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No want likes to be thought of as “a gossip”: a spreader of “tittle-tattle”; a malicious rumor monger; a time-wasting sniper at the great and the good. But we love gossip; and it sells. Whole magazines are dedicated to it. It is the life-blood of the best water-cooler moments. Nothing like a bit of juicy gossip about some cold, supercilious, senior manager.
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© 2012 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2012). Gossip is good for you. In: The Talented Manager. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369764_27
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