In a startup “Good news needs to travel fast, but bad news needs to travel faster.”
There’s something about the combination of human nature (rationalization and self deception) and large hierarchical organizations (corporations, military, government, etc.) that actively conspire to hide failure and errors. Institutional cover-ups are so ingrained that we take them for granted.
Yet for a startup a cover-up culture is death. In a startup founders and the board need to do exact the opposite of a large company – failures need to be shared, discussed and dissected to extract “lessons learned” so a new direction can be set.
To read the full, original article click on this link: The Cover-Up Culture | Xconomy
Author: Steve Blank
