Recently, certain issues have started to enter almost all our conversations about organizations, business, public life and our personal realities. Transparency is one of those urgent, increasingly prominent issues.

The word transparency encompasses candor, integrity, honesty, ethics, clarity, full disclosure, legal compliance and a host of other things that allow us to deal fairly with each value. In a networked universe, where competition is global and reputations can be shattered by the click of a mouse, transparency is often a matter of survival.

Click here to read a brief article about creating a culture of transparency.