“Aeolus has given him ever so much more. Quick—let us see what it all is, and how much gold and silver there is in the sack he gave him.”
~ The Odyssey - Book X (Samuel Butler Translation. p236)
In Book 10 of The Odyssey, King Aeolus gives Ulysses a bag containing all the winds except the one that will blow their ships back to Ithaca. They almost reach Ithaca, and Ulysses is even able to see the land from afar. So he decides to take some rest. While he is sleeping, Ulysses’ crew, thinking that Aeolus had secretly given Ulysses a fortune in gold and silver, tear the bag open. This unleashes all the winds, and they go way off course. They go back and ask Aeolus again, but he refuses and says that they are cursed. Many bad things happen to them after that. Along their voyage, Lastrygonians eat some of them, Circe turns some of them into pigs, etc.
All because of the suspicion and greed of Ulysses’s crew. Distrust feeds on itself, and when few people join together, and gossip, the curiosity of the unknown gives rise to more fantastic falsehoods. So it is always better to have a culture in a company where there is more transparency and there are attempts to demystify assumptions through AMAs (ask me anything), Open houses, etc., with leadership at an organization. Ulysses makes the mistake of not telling his men about the contents of the bag. If he had communicated honestly with them about the bag’s contents, they might not have been driven to open it. They already had notions about Ulysses hiding wealth from them, and this added to their assumptions.