Hooray for Candor!

There are some advantages to being at the organizational top.

People below you on the business pyramid are unfailing polite, things sometimes happen on a suggestion and not a request, furniture is nicer and pay is usually greater. Tones are hushed, the carpet is deeper, and pleasantries are often the order not just of the day, but the minute.

Candor – the quality of being frank, open and sincere – is often missing in action.… Read the rest