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Transparency
How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor
Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James
Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman
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Authors
: Warren
Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman
Hardcover : 130 pages
Publisher : Jossey-Bass. An imprint of Wiley
Language : English
ISBN 978-0-470-27876-5
RM68.25
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The management guru, Warren Bennis, once
said “What businesses now need more than ever before are
managers who know how to create social architectures for openness.”
One measure of openness is transparency. In today's world, transparency
is increasingly essential to business success; it helps to enhance
individual performance and also that of the organisation. And
thanks to the advancement of technology, our world today is becoming
increasingly transparent.
“Transparency : How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor”
is written by three significant authors : Warren Bennis - a distinguished
Professor of Business Administration and founding chairman of
The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California,
Daniel
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Goleman - a co-director of the Consortium for Research on Emotional
Intelligence in Organisations, based at Rutgers University and James
O'Toole, another distinguished Professor
of Business Ethics at the University of Denver's Daniels College
of Business and author of seventeen books.
This is a book about the evolution of transparency management through
three interrelated essays - “Creating a Culture of Candor”,
“Speaking Truth to Power” and “The New Transparency”.
It is worth reading across all levels of the organisation and for
those who want to be leaders. It explores the idea of personal responsibility
in an organisation,
what it means to be a transparent leader, how to create a transparent
organisation with a culture of candour, what are the steps to achieve
it, and how to live in an ever more transparent world culture. In
the Preface, Bennis notes that trust and transparency are always
linked. Without transparency, people don't believe what their leaders
say.
And in a recent interview, Bennis talked about his latest thinking
on leadership, once again emphasising that “...transparency
and candour are needed as much as possible for an effective relationship.
That requires an almost obsessive degree of communication. It also
means
continuing to generate and sustain trust.”
Hence, transparency is one of those urgent, increasingly prominent
issues that an organisation, its members and leaders need to look
into. Only healthy and honest openness will lead to a culture of
candour, trust, transparency and ultimately the establishment of
a long-term relationship. A
highly recommended book that combines theory and experience, it
offers both a long term view of transparency and a wealth of practical
advice. The ideas in each essay will make anyone both a better follower
and a better leader. 
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Reviewed
by Terri Chew.
Terri is the Human Resource Assistant at Otis Elevator Company
(M) Sdn Bhd. |
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