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The Downside of Transparency: An Interview with Professor Eric Eisenberg (Part 2)

In the first part of our interview, “Openness and Clarity are Overrated,” Professor Eric Eisenberg re-made the case he had pioneered as a young communication scholar in the mid-1980s when he argued against the then prevailing view inside and outside … Continue reading

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Openness and Clarity are Overrated: an Interview with Professor Eric Eisenberg (Part 1)

In the mid-1980s, a young communications scholar, Eric Eisenberg, published what would become a highly influential paper, “Ambiguity as Strategy in Organizational Communications.” In it, he argued against the then prevailing view inside and outside of academia that clarity and … Continue reading

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