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Georgene Huang
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06/12/19 at 1:48PM UTC
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"Moral perfection" in company culture

I was at an event recently where a CEO was sharing the idea that "the new generation of employees" (not defined, but implied to be those on the younger side) expects managers, role models at a company and the culture to be "morally perfect". His point was that it was very difficult to be honest about tradeoffs and the way in which a business is not a non-profit and/or even hold up other companies' or individuals' successes if they are not considered "perfect" in every way. A specific example is Elon Musk and how while being a controversial figure, he has accomplished a lot but it was not ok to talk about him or his strategies because younger employees at the company viewed him as so flawed in some ways that he could not be raised as a role model with respect to his other achievements. I'm curious whether other managers have encountered this and what their view is.

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06/12/19 at 2:24PM UTC
I've worked in a start-up environment for the last 4 years. Both companies I worked for had "talks" weekly/monthly where the core leadership team got up and answered questions from anyone in a public venue. They disclosed partnership choices, changes, etc. People would sometimes ask some really tough questions and you'd watch the leadership squirm, look at each other, and decide how much they could/couldn't disclose. No one believed they were perfect... one CEO was basically a personality that people rolled their eyes at and shook their heads at some of the things he would say. I think the transparency as a policy was a solid way to work with extremely smart people who wanted to know where the company was being driven.
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06/13/19 at 3:11PM UTC
I love this. Transparency as a policy is so important. Are the questions that are being asked sent beforehand or do the leaders not know what kind of questions they'll get until they stand up to answer?

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