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When transparency becomes performative

Our leadership team says we value transparency but we've developed this elaborate dance around information sharing where everyone hints at what they know but no one puts the full picture on the table, and I think we're all operating with different versions of reality.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Everyone claims to value openness, but no one actually shares what they really know.

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