Communicating at Work: Strategies for Success in Business and the Professions 11th Edition by Ronald Adler,Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst,Kristen Lucas

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Is Total Honesty Always the Best Policy?
In principle, few people would dispute the ethical principle that honesty is the best policy. At the same time, it is hard to imagine a world in which everyone told the whole truth all the time.
Explore how you can reconcile the need to be honest with other goals by recreating a list of all the opportunities you had to tell the truth during a typical day. Identify each occasion when you chose to either:
Hedge the truth by equivocating (e.g., saying, "That's an interesting idea" instead of saying, "I don't think that idea will work").
Based on your self-analysis, construct a principled yet pragmatic code of ethics involving honesty.