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the art of breaking the rules everyone agreed to pretend don't exist.
means a relaxed, unofficial style of behavior or communication that skips ceremony and status signaling.
from from latin informalis, meaning without fixed form; entered english in the 1800s as societies started loosening their collars, literally and figuratively.
office normslack replaced memos, and grammar with it
power moveCEOs using first names to seem approachable
cultural markerjapan and germany resist it far longer than the us