transparency

Rights of Condo Owners

3 September 2011

I have a Google Alert set up for “condo governance” that flags some interesting articles and the daily list of titles is revealing even if I don’t click through to read the articles. As would be expected, the current economic crisis aside, most are about delinquencies, condos going under because of bad management or foreclosures, [...]

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Full Disclosure

3 January 2011

No one can expect the spirit of involvement and partnership to flourish without an abundance of information available even to the most humble employee. I know all the arguments against a policy of full disclosure. … But the advantages of openness and truthfulness far outweigh the disadvantages. And a company that doesn’t share information when [...]

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Values & Sociocracy

2 April 2010

When I first learned about sociocracy in 2002 I believed that its value was equality.* The counter argument was that equality wasn’t a value, it was a practicality. People work more efficiently when they have an equal voice in their work. Sociocracy is value-free. It is an empty tool that when used by any organization [...]

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