Biweeklycast 27: Transparency

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cT9iDgtfknA Dima and Slava set out to discuss transparency as a potential solution to different challenges, but spend most of the time talking about compensation transparency and its challenges and benefits. * Follow-up: do managers overdo it out of desire for everything to go smoothly? * Focused #185: How to Be Miserable (https://www.relay.fm/focused/185) * Compensation transparency – disclosure of employee compensation amounts, either among other employees in an organization, to owners, to government regulators, or to the public (Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_transparency)) * Some articles from HBR on the topic transparency * Research: The Complicated Effects of Pay Transparency (https://hbr.org/2023/02/research-the-complicated-effects-of-pay-transparency) * Research: The Unintended Consequences of Pay Transparency (https://hbr.org/2022/08/research-the-unintended-consequences-of-pay-transparency) When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It (https://hbr.org/2016/07/when-transparency-backfires-and-how-to-prevent-it) * Transitioning to transparency can be risky that starting point is messy * Transparency on salaries and ranges would be incomplete without transparency on rules for promotions, etc * How does transparency benefit companies? * Is complete transparency even possible? * How to deal with misuse of information disclosed in pursuit of transparency? * Transparency vs brutal honesty * Biweeklycast #13 Automating The State (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/13) * Next episode: book club discussion of No Rules Rules (https://www.norulesrules.com/)