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The Manager Who Lies by Omission and How to Handle It
Episode 3 tackles a subtle but corrosive form of workplace dishonesty: the manager who withholds information rather than outright lying. Lucas and Luna break down a real case from a mid-size SaaS firm where a director regularly omitted key project updates from his status reports, leaving his team blindsided. They explore why omission feels safer to some managers than commission, how to document the pattern without triggering a defensive firestorm, and the one question that forces transparency. The conversation draws on research from Harvard Business Review on information asymmetry in…
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