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2021-06-10 // day precision

Tact and the contracting professional

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

A quotation card defines tact as telling someone to go to hell so they look forward to the trip, attributes the line to Winston Churchill, and adds AND A CONTRACTING PROFESSIONAL.
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Professional diplomacy as tactful refusal. The quotation attribution is part of the image and remains unverified. No caption visible. Source review: October 14, 2026. Facebook displayed 0 comments; 0 selected founder comments were retained privately. This public page does not reproduce the complete discussion. Display headings, image descriptions and this historical context are AI-assisted editorial interpretation; the original caption and preserved image are separate source material. Public images are display derivatives of preserved Facebook-served files.

Topics: Early Years, group origins, professional communication, customer relations