A Culture Lesson From A Fuck Off Sign

Written by amir-elkabir | Published 2020/10/02
Tech Story Tags: culture | management | project-management | customer-engagement | leadership | hackernoon-top-story | business | conference-room

TLDR Amir Elkabir was a project manager leading business and delivery activities for a major multinational bank in London in 2012. He had a most important semi-sales meeting with the client, a meeting he had prepared and worked for many weeks earlier. He was embarrassed when he pointed at him in a V-shaped ‘Two-Fingered Salute’, meaning ‘You haven’t cut off my fingers!” The British raise their two fingers in the V-shape ‘two-fingers’ sign till today to express the same feeling towards a bugging counterpart.via the TL;DR App

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Written by amir-elkabir | I enjoy working with multi-cultures building incredible products.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/10/02