Mark Osborne explains how growing companies often become less transparent with employees, using the "mushrooms" metaphor: keeping them in the dark. As organizations scale, town halls replace direct communication, but leaders grow more guarded about sharing information.
A lot of companies, as they grow, they start to make an effort to do more communication. So they do these town halls, but they also start to get more guarded about what they share. And they start to, you know, there's the old thing like, you know, they treat us like mushrooms. They keep us in the dark and feed us crap.
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