by Minter Dial | Jan 22, 2020 | Leadership
It seems like not a day passes without hearing someone, somewhere give a call for greater transparency. But is it a good idea? One friend of mine laid out the belief that transparency is the end of hope. To the extent life is tough and humanity might be evil at its...
by Minter Dial | Jun 14, 2014 | Leadership
In business, we often have to navigate between opposing forces. Take the need for confidentiality versus the spirit of innovation. There are some things that must be kept under wraps. For example, it might be a secret recipe, a pending new product launch or a...
by Minter Dial | Mar 1, 2010 | Politics, Responsibility
Transparency is one of the important buzzwords that has surged into new management and leadership vocabulary and, surely, rightly so. It has, in fact, become such a buzzword that the University of Michigan has put it tops of its 2010 list of 15 words that should be...