Tell your truth, but not the whole truth

I had an amazing conversation with a man this Monday evening about the importance of being authentic in the workplace. His work focuses solely on helping organizations figure out their HR and Diversity and Inclusion strategies but what we both agreed on is how much bigger than HR and Diversity, work-life (meaning your life at work) is. In the her book, Don't Bring It to Work, Sylvia Lafair offers makes a very astute observation that who we are in the workplace is a direct reflection of who we are period. The folks we have or are working with (super achievers, complainers, hermits, etc.) are 'products of their environments. I encourage you to read this book as it offers insights into how to recognize something, fairly counter-intuitive - that what we see is actually what we get. Even with our attempts to mask our true-selves, we still manifest some version of our 'outside of work' self.