TransparencyRisk to the business or not?

Kate CarruthersSocial Business Summit Sydney

March 2010

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So what?

Ensures that political leaders can be overthrown without the need for bloodshed

Where individuals are confronted with personal decisions as opposed to a “magical or tribal or collectivist society”

an open society …

Source: Karl Popper"The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume One", Routledge (1945, reprint 2006), chapter 10 part I

these are not the same thing…

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Source: Michael Schragehttp://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2010/03/is-honesty-the-best-policy-in.html

“Transparency doesn't magically make organizations more egalitarian and flat;

it makes the asymmetries of power and hierarchy more visible.”

asymmetries of power …