transparency
What’s Your Leadership Truthiness Quotient?
I may be into leadership and the effects of globalization on people and organizations, but I also have a keen sense of humor.
Book Club: Transparency, by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole
In their recent book, Transparency, this trio of authors - each famous in leadership circles in their own right - point out that the higher up the organizational ladder you get, the less likely people are to speak the truth to you. It's not that they lie. They just tell you what they think you want to hear. Speaking truth to power is one of the most difficult things in a hierarchy for large numbers of people.
Depressive or Delusive: Which is best in leadership?
Colin posted a book review on leadership and self-deception in the Hub Book Club and said it provoked the most changed behaviour out of all the books his leadership group at Black & Decker had read and discussed.
"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."
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