Guidance for managers

When you are managing a team of employees, you owe it to them to be honest. If you don’t clearly communicate that they are not doing a good job, they won’t know how to improve. If you don’t clearly communicate that you disagree with their ideas, you are losing out on an opportunity to help mentor them into your desired direction.

Guidance for employers

On the flip side, as an employee, it is not healthy to think one thing and say or do another. Your boss didn’t hire you to keep your good ideas to yourself, even if those ideas are in direct contradiction to the current beliefs of the team. You can’t be so worried about upsetting your boss (or worse yet, losing your job), that you hold back from putting your true opinion on the table. The best case is that your good ideas will resonate and be adopted. The worst case is that management will disagree with you, and you'll move on. And, if management continually shoots down your ideas, maybe that is a signal that this is not the right company for you (or vice versa).

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