> Yes. FYI They will lie to you regardless. If you create a culture where you lie, then people will lie to you. If you create a culture where you are honest,

> Yes. FYI They will lie to you regardless. If you create a culture where you lie, then people will lie to you. If you create a culture where you are honest, people will be honest back to you. There's nothing more powerful than going to your team and saying "Look, I fucked this up. I need your help". Honesty is disarming. I'm in a field where I manage scientists. If people start to lie to me or even start to bend the truth a little, we will waste years chasing ghosts. The people that work for me are very savvy at figuring out what I think might be true and they can always present just the right data to make me happy. I had to learn early on that I need to be really explicit: we need to do good work, it doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong, it doesn't matter if they're right or wrong, all that matters is progress. So no. Your employees don't need to lie to you. Mine come to me regularly and explain what went wrong. Judgement-free. And we do deep dives to prevent problems in the future. You are causing the problems, not them.