Warren Bennis & Daniel Goleman 
Transparency 
How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

In Transparency, the authors-a powerhouse trio in the
field of leadership-look at what conspires against ‘a culture
of candor’ in organizations to create disastrous results, and
suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness.
They explore the lightning-rod concept of
‘transparency’-which has fast become the buzzword not only in
business and corporate settings but in government and the social
sector as well.

Together Bennis, Goleman, and O’Toole explore why the
containment of truth is the dearest held value of far too many
organizations and suggest practical ways that organizations, their
leaders, their members, and their boards can achieve openness.
After years of dedicating themselves to research and theory, at
first separately, and now jointly, these three leadership giants
reveal the multifaceted importance of candor and show what promotes
transparency and what hinders it. They describe how leaders often
stymie the flow of information and the structural impediments that
keep information from getting where it needs to go. This vital
resource is written for any organization-business,
government, and nonprofit-that must achieve a culture of
candor, truth, and transparency.

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Preface vii
Warren Bennis

1 Creating a culture of candor 1
Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, and Patricia Ward Biederman

2 Speaking truth to power 45
James O’Toole

3 The new transparency 93
Warren Bennis

Notes 123

The authors 129

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Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. He also serves as chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Judgment and On Becoming a Leader.

Daniel Goleman authored the best-selling books Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership. He is codirector of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based at Rutgers University.

James O’Toole is the Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Executive’s Compass, Creating the Good Life, and Leading Change.