This weekend, I took my four year old daughter to a play in Soho. We arrived a little early and decided to poke around in some of the stores. 

Standing in front of one of the boutiques, she asked me, "how they make those people" pointing to one of the mannequins in the window. 

I confessed that I wasn't sure but laid out my best guess. I then asked her how she thought you made them. 

"You kill a person. Paint them with nail polish, and then chop off their head," she said matter of factly. 

It was clearly upsetting to her as five minutes later she followed up with- "what does it feel like to kill someone?"

"Yikes, kid- I don't know. I've never killed anyone," I replied and then paused. "Terrible, I suppose. Very sad."

It is amazing how people fill in the blanks when they lack information. It had never occurred to me to look at mannequins through her eyes and realize they could be seen as dead people, much like the stuffed zebras and bears at the Museum of Natural History. 

Someone in our office recently shared that when her team lacks information from Taproot's leadership, they often fill in the blanks with the worst case scenarios. Hearing how far my daughter took her imagination, her hypothesis- really illustrated that a lack of information is often more dangerous than too much information. It makes a great case for management transparency. 

That said, this all gives me an idea for a movie script starring Ben Stiller- "A Night at Barney's." I'll let you fill in the plot line.