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How teams rationalize away their stated values under pressure

Our leadership team always talks about being transparent with employees but when something controversial happens we immediately huddle and craft a careful message instead of just being honest about the complexity. Last week we spent three hours wordsmithing an email about layoffs instead of just saying we made difficult decisions in uncertain times and we're all learning as we go.

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Your leadership team preaches honesty but spends hours polishing messages instead of just being straight with people.

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