A Bit of Optimism · 2025-07-15 · 55 min · 10,927 words

The Business Case for Good Manners with etiquette coach William Hanson

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A lot of people sort of what you'll be doing a story about. a skiing accident, for example, that you've had. You were on hospitals you were skiing ten years ago, you had some accident. And most people seem to so will listen to that and will be thinking What story do I have about an accident I've had on holiday. Rather than Let me ask you a follow up question. Let you have that moment, whereas people are obsessed with trying to match or beat the story, and it becomes competitive because we have become so insecure, I think, generally, people feel that they need or they feel they need again to bond, oh to bond, I've got to say that I've gone through the same process as you. That's very tiring.

It is said that manners maketh the man. And that was also said in the fourteenth century. So six hundred years later, do our manners really say something about who we are? According to William Hansen, our manners absolutely say something about who we are, but not for the reasons most people might think. William is an etiquette coach from England and the executive director of the English Manor, an etiquette and protocol coaching company. А гітст бук, Just Good Manners, is now available in the US.

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