Why we SEEK to tell our secrets...

This post is slightly off the management topic, but because I have a BS in BS, I can link it to management with no problem.

I found this post on Citizen Rain about a blog called Post Secret interesting. Post Secret is a blog filled with secrets. People mail their secrets in to be posted. No names, of course. Check out the blog, it is amusing - sometimes funny, sometimes tragic. Frank Warren, the author of the blog, gets so many secrets sent to him that he has created a book of them (actually he is on his 4th book of secrets) and is currently on tour.

This got me thinking about two questions:

1. Why do we like telling our secrets?

2. What would a list of management related secrets look like? If you would like to send me your management (or business in general) secrets by email. I will post them all with no names once I get enough to make a meaty post of it. Just to be clear, I am not asking for your favorite management techniques - I am asking you to tell me a secret about something you did at work that nobody else knows.

Go ahead, use your extra incognito gmail/yahoo/hotmail email address and send me your secrets.... my email is lhaneberg AT gmail DOT com.