The other day, I found myself in a conversation with an old friend about honesty in business. He insisted that cutting corners, bending the truth a little, and making promises he never intended to keep were just “smart business tactics.” “Everybody does it,” he said with a shrug. “If you…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.