Washington on Confidants
During the week of Presidents’ Day, it seems fitting to use a quote from our first President.
In human resources, you walk a tightrope sometimes. You want people to trust you, and you need to have people you can trust. Yet you’re often caught between management and employees, between maintaining confidences and being open with employees, and between the desire to obtain sound advice on problems difficult to solve and the necessity of having your advisers keep your conversations to themselves. To this end, George Washington provides wisdom.
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
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