transparency - risk to the business or not
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Discussion of issues related to transparency for business at the Social Business Summit Sydneyhttp://bit.ly/c6hA5ETRANSCRIPT
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TransparencyRisk to the business or not?
Kate CarruthersSocial Business Summit Sydney
March 2010
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So what?
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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
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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.”
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asymmetries of power …
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