ONLY WHAT YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."

Jewish proverb

False witness, accidental or purposely, is the same.

If you didn't see it don't speak of it as though you did.

DID YOU HEAR WHAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED?

"In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

Voltaire

18th  century French writer/historian

Because without confirmation it is what may be rather than what is.

Big difference.

Rumors: "Did you hear . . ."

"In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows it all."

Harold Coffin
Former Associate Press Columnist

Working virtually I am no longer plugged into any office grapevine other than my own (and I've not said anything recently I was at all interested in hearing.)

When I did work with others in a large office, I didn't appreciate the value of the informal communication network that flowed in all directions from all levels. But I do now.

Employees may not know what's really going on but they know what they think they know and that is often more important than reality.

Are you listening?