johnvschmitt

People rightly crave accountability, & it's refreshing when it's displayed, as it's display is so rare lately. Don't fear accountability, embrace it.

FYI, my company (GoPhoto) had a similar "oops" email event & can validate that the approach in this article is right-on & valid.

"Good" = competitive in a fair market.

If it's an established company, you can/should use salary.com for ballparks on what is competitive.

If it's a startup, they are often preserving the small capital they have (cash poor), so you're looking at "Ramen" salaries (~$50k) or no salary at all, and bigger chunks of equity. (That equity will be worth zero or something based on your work & your small team's work, & luck.)

But, the best benefit is to make your living expenses while learning & saving a bit. The learning part is what most people forget about when picking a job.

I bet that's it. And/or, "hey the sales are falling! Better hide that bad news" Both are bad ideas, blinding them just when they need the data.

I'd rather risk having my competitors occasionally get some of my data, than risk not sharing data freely within my own team.

The competition is likely already getting those signals anyway, and the larger your organization, the more likely that you've got many internal blind spots that you really need to address.

Ouch! It's a bad sign when you starve your team of useful data!

"He revoked access to Penney’s sales data for all but the top executives. But that took away valuable information: the buyer for, say, men’s big and tall could not see how women’s plus size was performing."

Excellent points.

This would, of course, lead to any individual, or entity, simply keeping 2 sets of keys. One legit, taxed, & one gray/untracked. That way, they could play either the clean or dirty markets.

But, they still couldn't launder, or cross between dirty & clean easily. They'd still need a collaborative cleaner in between... Such cleaners are easily built in the model you mention. (Out of country, with hands in both clean/dirty channels.)

This was inevitable.

That's why I bought Google stock after they got into Android, as Android makes it possible for Google to now step in & protect against the MITTM attacks by ISP's blocking their ads. The OS gets the final word before it displays content to the user & it can detect & block these.

Now, they just have to deploy the fix to Android...