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This is has been bugging me for some time as well. How does one differentiate between a well intended Vs not in a typical work environment? Intentions are inte
by weekay 7y ago
This is has been bugging me for some time as well. How does one differentiate between a well intended Vs not in a typical work environment? Intentions are interpreted through various signals and when there are various strands of office politics in play it makes it really difficult to open up and follow the playbook suggested. The typical fear of are we giving away too much information by opening up and is it going to make it worse sometimes comes to play. Wish human interactions were simple
- leto_ii 7y agoI think the best that we can do is to observe people over time and slowly build trust or distrust. Work interactions I guess could be treated as a repeated game with imperfect information. We have to try to refine our priors iteratively. The way I did it was to be well-intentioned, honest and open with everybody in the beginning and close up as needed. I would determine if somebody was ill-intentioned based on how they reacted to my feedback and based on their general behavior. Do they tend to talk people behind their back? Do they consistently silo information? Do they offer constructive advice? Do they focus on the actual work rather than on attention-seeking? etc. But indeed the task is not easy and things will never be perfectly clear.
- weekay 7y agoThis reminds me of the prisoners dilemma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma