Why Do We Lie To Employees?

Most of us would have trouble remembering employee communications that didn’t reek of, well, employee communications, and that’s a problem.

Lots of factors conspire to inhibit or misdirect people who are otherwise talented and principled communicators to obscure the often valid and important information they’re tasked with sharing.

There are three questions you could ask the next time you decide you’re going to tell you employees something:

First, do you see them as customers? If you talked about customers in terms of what they…