But it sounds like you actually did lie to them, perhaps more than once. That's the problem. I've been through acquisitions, I've been on teams where 90% of th

But it sounds like you actually did lie to them, perhaps more than once. That's the problem. I've been through acquisitions, I've been on teams where 90% of the team was culled and the manager knew about it months and months in advance. In none of those situations did I feel betrayal or like the manager was a liar. Do you know why? Because they never lied. Nothing in the article that I read indicates you need to tell your team everything you know, or that you need to paint a rosy red picture of things when that may not be the case.