In most companies, performance, learning and enjoyment are “three sides of the work triangle,” suggests W. Timothy Gallwey in The Inner Game of Work (Random House): "When any are ignored, performance will suffer. When it does, management feels threatened and pushes harder for performance. Learning and enjoyment diminish further. A cycle ensues that prevents performance from reaching its potential."
Tempted to obfuscate or answer obscurely? Better think again, Ray Capp says in When You Mean Business About Yourself: Achieving Personal Success through Lessons from the World's Best Corporations (Conduit). "Honesty is the smartest option," he suggests. "Being honest is the most efficient way to operate. The truth requires the least energy to explain and maintain. It allows people to choose to interact with you time and time again."
In The Success Effect (S&R) by John Eckberg, Nucor Steel CEO Daniel R. DiMicco talks about job loss: "We’ve seen what happens when thousands of manufacturing jobs are lost: the increase in crime, the empty homes, the pain. What we really need is to hold onto jobs that are disappearing because of unfair and illegal trading practices. To say re-training is the solution? It makes me sick to my stomach.”
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Author of The Success Effect: Uncommon Conversations with America's Business Trailblazers

