"Open and honest communication" doesn't always mean what you might think it would mean. Good to know!
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7 comments:
"... the winds of change are blowing.. "
Tutto quello che posso dire è che se la gente pensa che si stava creando divisione, esso non poteva essere più lontano dalla verità. Almeno quando si erano attivamente blogging persone sono state parlando di questioni che sono di fronte a squadre di ogni giorno. Vi è stato un forum per bocca di lavoro e in modo costruttivo verso una soluzione. I gotta dire, è piuttosto deprimente vedere collaboratori per l'applicazione (e mi aspetto di più e più accettare) posti di lavoro altrove.
Google Translate does a pretty good job on the comment above. Too bad people aren't willing to comment with their own names attached, but I guess that's kind of the point of the post.
I'm hoping what he means is that "open and honest" still has to include "responsible" but the post is too short to do anything more than speculate.
Agile Man's blog posts at work seemed to be generating healthy discussions, and spreading the Agile bug quite effectively. Unfortunately this "open and honest" discussion forum has been taken away from us, but obviously he felt pressure or something happened to make him stop posting. I'd be interested to see an example of one post that crosses the "responsible" line.
And why are you up at 4:18am?? :-)
Memo to self... commenting on blogs at 4am is ill-advised :-)
For the record, as the only person who might have any organizational influence over our Dear AgileMan, I can honestly say he was never asked to stopped blogging. I too miss his internal blog.
A few comments... on the comments.
1) Next time someone posts a comment in Italian, please let linguistically-challenged folks like me know IT'S IN ITALIAN as the Spanish and Portugese translations that I tried just weren't cutting it! :-)
2) No one ever told me that I had to stop blogging at work. What I was told, repeatedly, however - and always indirectly, through a proxy - was that some perceived my blog posts as "divisive", "fostering divisiveness" and "critical of management." Along with those comments always came requests to stop writing those kinds of posts, and to be more positive. Since I believe that there are others within my company better-suited for such cheerleading activities, I left it to them and haven't blogged at work since (about two months now). If and when the day ever comes that I think open and honest communication is actually valued by my company, I'll happily resume blogging at work (if I'm still working there by then).
3) I take exception to the implication that I've ever blogged irresponsibly. I stand behind every word of all nearly-2000 blog posts I've written, here, there and anywhere I've blogged. The right question to ask, though, is: "responsible to whom?" In my work blog, for example, I didn't feel that I was solely responsible to my company's executives and management staff, but rather to the employees of my company... all of them! That includes people who don't feel that they can speak openly about problems occuring around them, for fear (real or imagined) of retribution. I can kind of see their point lately.
4) I don't believe problems get solved by shutting down the forums for open and honest discussions about / expressions of those problems. Some people, however, don't agree with that opinion, it seems.
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