📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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 Compensation transparency – disclosure of employee compensation amounts, either among other employees in an organization, to owners, to government regulators, or to the public (Wikipedia) Some articles from HBR on the topic transparency Research: The Complicated Effects of Pay Transparency Research: The Unintended Consequences of Pay Transparency 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 Next episode: book club discussion of No Rules Rules