How much information is too much information? When is too much information detrimental to a team’s success and when is it an enabler?
There are times when situations are clear cut. If you are planning to lay off an employee, you don’t want to publish it in the company’s gazette. If a new policy that affects all employees goes into effect, you don’t want to keep it to yourself.
Problems arise when the need-to-know is not as evident. Some times, we find ourselves in situations where we can’t please both God and the Devil.
Succesfully going through a job interview process may not mean that you got the job. Take this example from my friend Florencia. When she interviewed for her last job, she was told that as a lawyer managing contracts for the company she would be earning $XXXX. She agreed to that only to find, in a follow up phone call with her future employer that the salary she was offered wasn´t the one agreed during her last interview, but a lower one.
At this point she was faced with two options:
* either agree with the already decent compensation she was offered during the follow up call
* or fight for what she was told at first
Get in her shoes. When you finally manage to get a job, maybe after weeks or months of looking for one, disputing the wage may risk not being hired since the company could go for a similar candidate with lower monetary aspirations.
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