people are not stupid- they know a business needs to make money. middle managers who tries to hide this from their team, even with the best intention (ie, to "s

people are not stupid- they know a business needs to make money. middle managers who tries to hide this from their team, even with the best intention (ie, to "shield" them from the realities) are only fooling themselves and in the end will always look like hypocrites to their team, while also taking the blame from higher ups. there's no winning.