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What are your most significant discoveries about metaphors to your daily communications as they relate to organization's culture?

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Significant discoveries about metaphors in daily communications:

1. The communication to employees if for the same thing you have to follow up and remind many times means that you are not able to drive home the importance and urgency of communication. There is communication gap in form of your conveying the message and not understanding seriousness of same.
2. If before saying something the other person expresses the top agenda in your mind means that person knows you well and is a very sensitive person.
3. If you communicate to your about the issues concerning to your not able to properly execute your function, in short term it may hurt the boss but in long run ...

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