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Re:Ask HN: How much info should founders share with early st... by Ken_At_EM on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:02PM (#32630467)
My experience has been that there are employees who don’t really want to understand the big picture and just focus on their work.

I have never seen transparency hurt the productivity of these employees. They know they can look and see the big picture any time, they just don’t bother to look:

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Re:Ask HN: How much info should founders share with early st... by morelisp on Sunday August 28, 2022 @04:44PM (#32631889)
"Transparency" means different things to different people. I suspect we agree, because my solution to the problem is to make it clear to everyone that they can ask me anything and I'll tell them everything I legally can.

But for some people "transparency" also means a more active communication of this information, and this definitely confuses some (other) people because they will consistently interpret "we want to do X" or "we are going to do X" as "I should, right now, do (sub-part of) X".

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