How to Win Favours...

A week ago, a reporter at the The Ottawa Citizen called me up to ask my opinion on the scandal that had engulfed one of the municipal agencies in charge of waste management contracts. City employees had been receiving gifts from one of the firms bidding on a major contract. So I told them what the research has proven over and over again... if you receive a gift, especially when it comes to you as a result of your professional position, the odds are you will feel a strong urge to repay that gift. Physicians, medical specialists, and especially politicians, they all deny it, but the research clearly shows otherwise - gifts work. Period.

Read the article here.