Passive-aggressiveness is a warning sign your employer isn’t transparent enough. We’ve all played the game of telephone at work: tell a colleague something and a few teammates later the story is blown completely out of proportion. In short order, an internal political battle is brewing — all built on speculation. It’s easy to happen when…
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What does it mean to be a transparent manager? One of the fundamental choices every leader or manager has to make is how accessible you’ll be. I adopted a philosophy inspired by management guru Tom Peters called, “management by wandering around.” I tried to spend about one-third of my time meeting teammates where they worked, listening…
Read MoreThe Key to Being a Better Manager
Making transparency of decision making a priority. My career reality is I’ve spent more time with leaders who are great decision-ma kers than I have with great managers entrusted with carrying out those decisions. As you might guess, I believe CEOs can sometimes hold back managers from being their very best. Most great leaders don’t…
Read MoreThe Six Drivers of Transparency
How to make decision-making transparent in your workplace Human behavior is at the heart of transparency, and the way human behavior expresses itself in any organization is how corporate culture impacts decision-making. However, if I have learned anything listening to hundreds of customers over the past decade, it is that no two companies have exactly…
Read MoreThe Four Warning Signs
When decision-making isn’t transparent I once had the pleasure of spending an hour by myself with one of the world’s great managers — Jack Welch. I have never forgotten the advice he gave me, and I’ve quoted him hundreds of times since I met him in 2003, not long after he retired from General Electric…
Read More3 Questions to Get the Most Out of Company Data
Interpret and understand your company’s score breakdown. How do you know if you can trust an employer to tell you the truth, especially about your job or career opportunities? Here at the Transparency Imperative, it’s our goal to make it easy to see if your current or future employer values transparency the way you do.…
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