Transparency builds trust, as we've said. But, why would you want to do that?

Really it's around Leveraging Potential.

We have a lot of people in our organisation and we can be the one smart person doing all the thinking or we can leverage the potential of those that are around us. For instance, I do a lot of strategic planning and we put 20 people in a room and you literally have couple of hundred years worth of commercial experience, and not only commercial experience, but a whole life experience. And diverse people bring you all sorts of different backgrounds and perspectives to issues and opportunities. It's so much more constructive than one person coming up with a random idea. Could be a good one, could be a bad one. We don't know. But, if you have a number of people, you can collaborate.READ FULL ARTICLE