Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

PREFACE

Warren Bennis

Certain issues leap to the fore across institutions and start to enter almost all our conversations about organizations, business, public life, and our personal realities. Transparency is one of those urgent, increasingly prominent issues.

As someone who has devoted much of his life to the study of leaders, I find myself talking about transparency—and thus about trust as well—whenever I talk about leadership. Transparency is a central issue whether the subject is global business, corporate governance, national and international politics, or how the media deal with the tidal wave of information that slams into us each day. An inclusive and appealing word, transparency encompasses candor, integrity, honesty, ethics, clarity, ...