APRIL 2008: READER LETTERS
The trouble with the “truth” and anonymous
complaints
I just read “Troubling truths” [100 BEST
COMPANIES, MARCH] and having heard those same complaints
about my management style, I must ask: Where is the truly
objective examination of the anger, sadness and frustration
reported by all of those mismanaged employees?
Several years ago, when my ex-partner hired a consultant to
help with workplace issues we were experiencing, I found the
employees who complained the longest and the loudest, when
allowed to do so anonymously, contributed the least, took the
most and created, rather than solved, problems in the
organization.
I guess it could be argued that including your
“truths” adds some form of balance to the praise
given to other companies in the magazine but in
“truth,” they have no value as they have not been
qualified in any manner.
Bob Peterson,
president
Allied Power Products
Beaverton
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