Getting Comfortable with Candor

In the business world, it’s so much easier for managers to gloss over employees’ weaknesses or for employees to give some manager’s zany proposal a free pass, no questions asked. Just go with the flow and it’s all good. Until it’s not.Here’s the thing: When managers don’t give employees the critical intel they need to get better, they’re tacitly indicating that underperformance is OK. That then places an unfair burden on high-performing employees who pick up the slack. And that, in turn, leads to resentment and low morale, poor team results and higher turnover as star employees tire of the charade.The