23.22: Make it transparent

I wrote earlier that radical transparency is major shift in perspective, and I’m not putting my SSN on the web (or even my Horizon record). But as a professional practice, transparency has the potential to cut off the oxygen of many of the most pernicious practices in business organizations globally. When processes and decisions are in the open, there are no fiefdoms, no robbing Peter to pay Paul, no vindictiveness, no private agendas, no prejudice. And focus on how to explain, spin, and portray initiatives is replaced by focus on the initiatives themselves.

Utopian? Well sure -- but it seems a bir more grounded to be Utopian about the potential of transparency in organizations that to be Utopian about the potential of say, a gaming console or of flickr.

Of course, as AskAway shows, transparency does require respect… courage… candidness ... and shared commitment. But if we collaborate fully, those are things we’ll learn.