Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

Openness seems like a positive attribute for organizations, but the authors of this book outline how a lack of what they call for as “radical candor” proves disastrous in business, government, and other entities. How can your organization benefit from more transparency?

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.