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You only tell your dearest, closest friend, sworn to secrecy for life, the first time you had sex.
His plots are all about destruction and secrecy, whereas my plots are about creation and openness.
If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.
No secrecy.
Beyond that, what I found most fascinating was the level of endemic corruption that I saw across all different countries, and particularly centered around the heart of power, around public officials who were embezzling the public's money for their own personal enrichment, and allowed to do that because of official secrecy.
This engine, well, it's driven by our international banking system, by the problem of anonymous shell companies, and by the secrecy that we have afforded big oil, gas and mining operations, and, most of all, by the failure of our politicians to back up their rhetoric and do something really meaningful and systemic to tackle this stuff.
But I was also struck by the burdensome nature of such mutual secrecy.
Why should this secrecy be such an accepted business practice?
ES: Well, when you look at the results of these programs in stopping terrorism, you will see that that's unfounded, and you don't have to take my word for it, because we've had the first open court, the first federal court that's reviewed this, outside the secrecy arrangement, called these programs Orwellian and likely unconstitutional.
But what we saw is, in the post-9/11 era, they used secrecy and they used the justification of terrorism to start these programs in secret without asking Congress, without asking the American people, and it's that kind of government behind closed doors that we need to guard ourselves against, because it makes us less safe, and it offers no value.
And I think that people have legitimate concerns about the balance between transparency and secrecy.
I think it really is transparency and secrecy.
Now, we did what we knew, how we had grown up, and one of the things that we knew, that was in our DNA, was secrecy.
It was a significant culture shift for an organization that had secrecy in its DNA.
And even five years ago, many people would have said that bank secrecy will be with us forever in Switzerland, that Switzerland was too powerful for the rest of the world, and then suddenly it took a few U.S. sanctions against Swiss banks for a big change to happen, and now we are moving toward more financial transparency.
That's when we change the paradigm of medicine from one of secrecy and hiding to one that is fully open and engaged for our patients.
Today, I'm breaking mine, around money, secrecy and shame.
That sort of secrecy in America has allowed employees of school districts to rip off schoolchildren.
We need business leaders to stand up and say, "Secrecy like this is not good for business."
We need political leaders to recognize the problem, and to commit to changing the law to open up this sort of secrecy.
Together, we can end the secrecy that is currently allowing tax evasion, corruption, money laundering to flourish.
But what if secrecy is actually the reason for all that strife?
And what would happen if we removed that secrecy?
It turns out that in addition to the assumed reasons, pay secrecy is actually a way to save a lot of money.
And in hiring or promotion or annual raise discussions, an employer can use that secrecy to save a lot of money.
Next, information asymmetry, pay secrecy, makes it easier to ignore the discrimination that's already present in the market today.
Dane is a serial entrepreneur who started many companies in a pay secrecy condition and even used that condition to pay two equally qualified people dramatically different salaries, depending on how well they could negotiate.
And we had to carry out all these preparations in total secrecy.
You don't have to make a big deal of it, but secrecy tends to be corrosive.
There is so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them.
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