The goal of every manager is to become a respected manager. 

This is a  fine goal to have, but just exactly how can we make this happen? It  turns out that one important step in getting your team to respect you is  for you to make the practice of transparency important. Why should you  bother with this? Well, give some thought to doing the opposite thing.  Think about the last time you caught someone in the act of not being  transparent. Since then has your trust in that person ever fully  recovered? Clearly transparency is something that we need to work on as  managers. 

How can we do this?