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The art of letting someone else have your way.
means The practiced skill of managing negotiations and relationships between people or nations without causing offense — getting what you want while letting others save face.
from Traces back to Greek diploma, meaning a folded paper or document, from diploun, 'to fold double.' Official state papers — treaties, letters of passage — were literally folded in a particular way, and in French diplomatie came to mean the business of handling such official documents between states. By the 18th century it had widened from the paperwork of statecraft to the delicate art of statecraft itself.
- origin
- from Greek diploma, a folded document granting passage
- core skill
- saying nothing fluently
- golden rule
- never lie, never tell the whole truth
- failure mode
- war, but with better stationery first