Let’s be Honest

Let’s be honest, honesty seems in pretty short supply in life, and especially in business. 

Let’s be honest…

• It’s dangerous to speak one’s mind honestly.
• Most folks are more interested in holding down a job than in being honest about what’s going on.
• Being honest feels good, but has far more negative consequences than positive ones.
• The more senior the person, the more lip-service is paid to honesty.
• How often do you feel it necessary to hide what you’re doing, rather than honestly declaiming your actions?
• The smarter folks are, the more acute their capacity for self-deception.
• Character (as in “good character”) is lauded in public and ridiculed in private.
• You’re not going to risk commenting on this post, lest someone influential sees your honest opinon.

– Bob

Further Reading

Radical Candor ~ Kim Scott