Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole, Patricia Ward Biederman (Editor)

Overview

In Transparency, the authors–a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership–look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the lightning-rod concept of "transparency"–which has fast become the buzzword not only in business and corporate settings but in government and the social sector as well.

Together Bennis, Goleman, and O'Toole explore why the containment of truth is the dearest held value of far too many organizations and suggest practical ways that organizations, their leaders, their members, and their boards can achieve openness. After years of dedicating themselves to research and theory, at first separately, and now jointly, these three leadership giants reveal the multifaceted importance of candor and show what promotes transparency and what hinders it. They describe how leaders often stymie the flow of information and the structural impediments that keep information from getting where it needs to go. This vital resource is written for any organization–business, government, and nonprofit–that must achieve a culture of candor, truth, and transparency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118039571
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/21/2010
Series:	J-B Warren Bennis Series , #157
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	146
File size:	246 KB

About the Author

Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. He also serves as chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Judgment and On Becoming a Leader.

Daniel Goleman authored the best-selling books Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership. He is codirector of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based at Rutgers University.

James O'Toole is the Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Executive's Compass, Creating the Good Life, and Leading Change.

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Table of Contents

Preface vii
Warren Bennis

1 Creating a culture of candor 1
Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, and Patricia Ward Biederman

2 Speaking truth to power 45
James O'Toole

3 The new transparency 93
Warren Bennis

Notes 123

The authors 129

Editorial Reviews

"...would not be out of place in the executive reading room." (Edge, October 2008)

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