This looks like it is going to be a series of posts, like the popular CEO Communication series of last autumn.  So stick with it... And learn to read a blog backwards...

Like most others in the north Atlantic region, I was at a family Christmas meal this past week.  We seem to save the special indignities for once a year.  It is at these events that uncles get into the rum sauce and ask parents to shut their kids up, and it is here that the truth is often spoken.

In an early exchange my distant cousin inquired into what I did, and when my wife explained (she talks for me on holidays), he replied: "So, you help companies lie to their employees."

He's not a bad man, my cousin.  He's probably one if my business heroes. And it was his turkey pie, so I just let it sit there...  or maybe I agreed.

Do I actually help companies lie to their employees?

No.  I help people in companies to communicate.

Do companies lie to their employees?

Strictly speaking?  Probably, yes.

All organisations do: charities, governments, churches... any enterprise involved in getting people to do things.

In the next few posts let's look at why that is. 

A good starting point though is a book and film called The Corporation.  I have now bought about 6 copies.  I keep giving it to unsuspecting people.  The premise is simple: corporations are designed to make a profit.

Obvious, right? 

All organisations have a point of view.

More tomorrow.