Gossip is good, up to a point, which is why the CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, actively encourages it at his firm.
“Rule of thumb when it comes to office gossip: If you have more truth telling at the water cooler than in meetings, you've got a problem,” he explains in an interview with Business Insider.
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