Can the fist bump mix with business?

By DEL JONES • USA TODAY • July 21, 2008 The handshake may always have a firm grip on business, but the fist bump is making inroads — albeit in the face of some resistance. “I have not encountered a fist bump and would judge anyone who tried it as a total redneck,” says Dr. Grace Keenan , medical director of Nova Medical and Urgent Care Center in Ashburn, Va. “I hope that it never is seen as a replacement for a handshake in the business community.” But Scott Jones, CEO of ChaCha, a search engine company in Carmel, Ind., says he now has a business fist-bump encounter about monthly. David Lingafelter, president of faucet-maker Moen in North Olmsted, Ohio, says he is fist-bumped about twice monthly, where it was non-existent a couple of years ago. So far, executives say, it is exchanged almost exclusively among male business... [read full story]