Are you creating a transparent organization?

I’ve come to believe that leaders can create transformative experiences when they focus on creating transparent organizations (or teams). To my mind, a transparent organization is one with the following characteristics:
Alignment: every stakeholder has a “line-of-sight” to the vision of the whole organization. Each person knows exactly how his/her contribution and performance assists the organization [...]

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Does your mission statement bravely go where none has gone before?

Few ideas have swept through organizations in the last couple of decades as pervasively as the notion that they need a mission statement. Senior leaders huddle in offsite conference rooms for hours or even days, wordsmithing something they can bring back to the organization which, they hope, will take their organization to “the next level.” [...]

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