Open Book Leadership

2 Hour Topic

Managers, Directors and Executives

The logic and evidence for the case are strong and irrefutable: If you want your employees to take the initiative, to be productive, to be customer oriented, to act as contributors to the business, then you must ensure that they understand the business as if it were their own and that they have the information they need to act in a timely manner to gain results. In fact any results oriented initiative from Total Quality Management, through process redesign to Six Sigma is guaranteed to fail if they cannot happen within the context of open book leadership. Open book leadership assumes at its starting point that all employees are adults who can fully comprehend strategy and financial disclosure as well as other dynamic organizational factors that add up to business results. They are also deemed worthy of fully participating in business decision- making and working independently to ensue the success of the whole enterprise.