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Asked by : Raghu Kastury, Principal Consultant & Head of Strategic Business Unit - Retail & Distribution, Sundaram Infotech Solutions Limited
Industry : Human Resources (HR) Consulting
Functional Area : Leadership Styles
Activity: Question posted: 10 01 2009 04:28:08 +0000, 31 answers, 1872 views, last activity 07 06 2010 20:18:08 +0000
 
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Some people, when they feel telling truth might complicate the issues at hand in the short term, quickly resort to hide, distort facts or even tell lies without having to bother about the consequences in the long term.

There are white lies which are casual and are allowable. But some lies, which cause people to take wrong decisions, which keep people under different impression or lead to deception are dangerous. But why people lie - is it because people find it difficult to speak the truth.

Some people lie deliberately, as per their strategy to achieve something, they decide to lie. In my opinion no one can convince them to speak the truth because they have to change their strategy completely.

But some people lie, simply because they do not have enough courage to face the immedite consequences and under some stressful conditions, they get into involuntry response - most of the times it would be a lie though some times people come up with truth based on the pressure levels thay can take.

I feel it is a childhood habit starts with telling small lies, fearing punishment. When we feel a kid is not speaking truth, we should not try to uncover his lies by asking further questions. We should tell them that we are not convinced with the response, we could freely discuss the issue. We should give them enough confidence that person be protected from punishment, if that persons acts have not already caused damage to the society or any individuals. It is the same for elders also. Many people usually have one person in whom they confide and speak always truth with them. Why? Because they feel safe and supportive.

Thatswhy, people think telling a lie is much easier than speaking truth, which needs courage.

 
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Telling Lies or Speaking truth both are easy but there is a greatest disadvantage of telling lies is "you have to remember FOUR Ws i.e."What you said, Where you said, Why you Said & When you Said" otherwise you will be caught.



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by   prakashraj kumavat, MBA/PGDM student, Omegan School of Business (ICFAI Tripura)  | 10 01 2009 04:54:04 +0000
  Answered by     Anjali Sinha, Construction-Heavy, Sobha Developers  | 11 16 2009 10:27:30 +0000
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Truth is the most simplest thing to say if one is really brave enough, people who are not brave tend to lie more as they are scared of the consequences all the time, so according to me Truth is much easier to tell.

  Answered by     Nagpal Singh, Sales and Business Development, Babel Group of companies  | 11 15 2009 06:57:59 +0000
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Telling truth is most simple as compared to a lie.... reason.... to tell a lie one speaks entirely non existing matter which is to be derived as per the responce of listener  most of all you need to remember your groundings you did use to tell lie whereas for truth you need not to rot anything ... its same now and then always

  Answer modified by     Anuj Rajpurohit, Business Development, Neesa Technologies P. Ltd.  | 11 14 2009 14:13:48 +0000
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Very well said by himanshu....It depends on person to person.....Some people tell lies because they are habituated to it and they are perfect in it, some lie because they are afraid of losing someone's trust if they said the truth and some tell lies because situation made them to lie...partially it depends on that person whether to say or to not...but it is on the part of the other person also to whom the former person is telling a lie....

We all must have said lies,no doubt about it.....must be telling also....but why do we do....???

Most common things...

1. Its easy to tell a lie....

2. Difficult to tell the truth

3. We are happy and satisfied to lie(IF SAID TO FOOL SOMEONE).....

4. Situation made us to....

But i personally believe that if you want to tell a lie,make sure that ur never caught...Because if ur caught it will destroy u,someone's trust on u,ur image. You will feel guilty of telling lies....

So, i want to tell it to myself and everyone who would read my post,please "Rather be MUM than telling a LIE...OR have the COURAGE to speak the TRUTH..."

  Answered by     Satish Kumar, Assistant Manager - Green Building  | 11 14 2009 12:49:52 +0000
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Weather it is telling lies or truth, if u have the self confidence and correct approch one can say it easily.

  Answered by     Ajay Ziz, Dy. Registrar,, University of Jammu  | 11 14 2009 11:04:44 +0000
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telling lies & speaking truth are utopian , highly regrettable commodities :: so difficult ..

easy :: eating french fries & playing with mobiles bluetooth..

  Answered by     Kalgi Shah, HR Executive, Websters Netlink Pvt Ltd  | 11 14 2009 10:19:53 +0000
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Speaking truth is most difficult as you need to have courage to speak it..but for speaking lies you always make excuses and i feel anyone csn make it very easily..So dont try to hide the truth by speaking lies s u will be caught someday or other..

So be courageous enough to speak truth & then face the situation...

  Answered by     himanshu gadkari, RETAIL STORE MANAGER(PUMA RETAIL LTD)  | 11 13 2009 14:25:10 +0000
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both are are easy it depends on the person who is speaking...a perfect lier who is very smart will never be caught if he has the ability to prove himself right....and make others fool...

BUT IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO SPEAK TRUTH BECAUSE IF YOUR ARE CAUGHT SPEAKING LIE THEN IT YOU LOOSE YOUR CREDIBILITY...

  Answered by     Resmi Maxim, GENERAL MANAGER - OPERATIONS, SI PROPERTY (KERALA) PVT.LTD.,  | 11 10 2009 09:22:46 +0000
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Telling truth is no difficulty. When you lie and if it has a bearing on others, then it is a mess.

  Answered by     Kumbakonam S Venkataraman, Associate Editor, Dynamic Youth online magazine  | 10 16 2009 00:06:59 +0000
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Speaking the truth may appear to be difficult first; but in due course the experience would prove that it is easier than uttering a lie. Uttering lies is likely to damage one's own equanimity. That is why, Thiruvalluvar has advised us not to lie; he has warned that if we do so our own mind would chastise us. (Thirukkural 293)

  Answered by     MAHADEVA S. SARMA, ADDITIONAL GENERAL MANAGER, Bharat Heavy Electricals  | 10 14 2009 11:54:31 +0000
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Speaking the truth is easiest for one need not remember what one said. If you consistently speak the truth- what you need is courage, and the composure to take a loss.

 
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