Curious. All of the advice I've read about women in the work place contradicts this assertion. To wit, that women tend to be TOO candid, and should restrain this compulsion in order to thrive.
I think this is because it's advice for a corporate environment. Candor works with customers because customers want to know they can depend on you. However as someone else in this thread commented, corporate environments have a lot of politics. Other people don't depend on you (or don't perceive it as such) and, to make a blatant generalization, are more worried about keeping their own job. So: work with customers? Be candid. Work in corporate? Don't be candid.
