I’ve found that many people, depending on the circumstances, who change don’t like to acknowledge it. When admitting the change is tantamount to saying “I was wrong” you’ll find few people jumping up and down to do it.

The important thing is that he did change. After spending time with him I discovered that information control was a de facto practice of the culture in his two previous companies and that that time span covered his ten years in management, so he knew no other approach and had no reason to trust it when he met it.