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Transparency by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole |Book Brief
The book "Transparency" argues that while many organizations give lip service to the idea of transparency, true openness and candor is rare. Author James O'Toole explains what it means to be transparent in the business world, why it's so important, and how organizations can take steps towards it.
Tags: Organization, Transparency, Candor, Truth To Power, Openness, Book Brief
Videos 2008-09-09

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Speaking Truth to Power
Speaking Truth to Power Hill Anita Doubleday. October. 368p. ISBN 0-385-47625-6. $24.95 Hill was thrust into the limelight when asked to speak at the Senate hearings during the Supreme Court nomination proceedings for Clarence Thomas, She now relates her journey from childhood and a rural Oklahoma farm to being scnitinized...
Tags: Oklahoma, U.S. Senate
Research articles 1997-10-01
Cheney speaks truth to Pelosi
Speak truth to power. The phrase conjures visions of Old Testament patriarchs or civil rights prophets stepping forward in difficult times to utter unpopular, discomfiting truths. Of course, the phrase loses its power when commonplace. There's nothing biblical or righteous about an MSNBC promo for an announcer who...
Tags: al-Qaeda, Iraq, Strategy
Research articles 2007-03-15
The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House. (State of the debate: Clinton: the untold story). (book review)
The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House By Benjamin R. Barber. W.W. Norton and Company, 320 pages, $26.95 IN WASHINGTON, CONSERVATIVES still roam the Capitol trying to name airports, post offices, and federal buildings for Ronald Reagan. But ...
Tags: Democrat, Government, Johnson, president, prosperity, SOFTWARE, White House
Research articles 2002-02-25
Speaking truth to power: the language of civil rights litigators.
Civil rights lawyers litigate cases arising from compelling stories of dramatic and persuasive narrative power. In their cases, lawyers are confronted with several strategic reasons for pleading their clients' stories in more expanisve and persuasive ways. But despite the narrative force of the stories, lawyers write about them in stale,...
Tags: Fitzgerald, Illinois, Johnson, judge, lawyer, Lincoln, metaphor, Richard, Robert, South, voice, White House
Research articles 1995-01-01
The Secret Guide to the MBA Curriculum
The Secret Guide to the MBA CurriculumMBAWhat is the next step if MBA is not worth. I am planning for IT MBA. Pls. adviceRE: nullI think a marketing course is missing.RE: nullcool.that sound okas long as there is a tlak about MBA as long as it still have...
Tags: MBA
Discussion threads 2007-10-23
Dick Jerardi | Opening rounds not too upsetting
CHICAGO - After 48 games in 4 days, some truths have become self-evident. The old sage John Chaney's favorite phrase is "truth to power." Well, this was "truth of power."The top five seeds got through to the second round for just the second time since the tournament expanded to 64...
Tags: Games, league, Memphis, NCAA, team, University of California at Los Angeles
Research articles 2007-03-19
The Truth Behind the 230 MPG Claim From the Chevy Volt: Analysis
It's all in the numbers: The EPA has finally figured out exactly what the testing procedures might be (the regulation hasn't formally been adopted yet) for plug-in hybrid vehicles like the Chevy Volt. This week Chevy announced that the Volt will deliver 230 mpg. Other plug-in-hybrid manufacturers won't be long...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, mile, Battery, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
News items 2009-08-13
On the Bus With Rosa Parks
On the Bus With Rosa Parks Rita Dove Soon after the Clinton-Gore administration took the White House, Rita Dove was invited to read a little something for them at an after-dinner event. She chose her poem "Parsley," based on the abuses of power by the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo....
Tags: dictator, Dove, intersection, smile, sweep, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, White House
Research articles 1999-11-01
Need to know: Time Warner falls 7%... Greggs sales up... Kier deal
View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Interest rates: The Bank of England should cut interest rates by either a half-point or a full percentage point today, The Times Monetary Policy Committee recommended in a split vote. Three of the nine members of the panel said that no...
News items 2009-08-07
Holy Folk; There Was More Inside Woody Guthrie's Mind - and Songbook - Than the Plight of Farmers
Moskowitz, Jon Forward 12-12-2003 Woody Guthrie is an icon of folk music and progressive politics, and in the years since his 1967 death, he has also become something of a cliche. But the simplified view of the Oklahoma-born singer -- the earnest...
Tags: Farmers
Research articles 2003-12-12
Anita Hill releases new book about hearings
WASHINGTON AP -- Anita Hill, the woman whose 1991 testimony almost kept Justice Clarence Thomas off the Supreme Court, accuses members of the Senate Judiciary Committee of being arrogant, unfair and irresponsible. In a new book, Speaking Truth to Power, Hill said arrogant senators treated her unfairly during...
Tags: Harassment, U.S. Senate
Research articles 1997-09-26
Mexico Faces Moment of Truth on Trade to Secure Long-Term Economic Viability.
By Brendan M. Case, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 4--MEXICO CITY--Over the next year or so, Texas' largest trading partner will choose between fueling prosperity and trashing its economy. Mexico's economy is as stable as it...
Tags: FINANCE, Leadership, Mexico, Taxes, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2003-08-04
Law Professor And Human Rights Activist Mendez Featured In Book And PBS Program
Juan Méndez, professor of law and director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame(www.nd.edu), is featured in a new book that profiles figures from around the world who have stood up to oppression in the nonviolent pursuit of...
Tags: activist, Argentina, CAREER, Components, HARDWARE, PBS
Research articles 1970-01-01
Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring
Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. xvi, 254 pp.; US $34.95. ISBN 1558494766. Silent Spring (1962), by marine biologist Rachel Carson, has been compared to Uncle Tom's Cabin and other crusading books that "spoke...
Tags: American Media Inc., University of Massachusetts
Research articles 2006-09-22
No 'cherry picking' of intelligence: incoming US spy chief
WASHINGTON AFP — America's incoming top spy pledged to prevent the misuse of intelligence, when asked how he would respond if US administration officials tried to "cherry pick" data to justify war. Retired Vice Admiral Michael McConnell also said during his Senate confirmation hearing he would ensure the intelligence...
Tags: administration, senator, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-02-01
Mandela urges journalists to be guided by truth, freedom
CAPE TOWN AFP — South Africa's former president and Nobel peace prize laureate Nelson Mandela urged journalists Sunday to let themselves be guided by truth and freedom. "My friends, let your watchwords be truth and freedom," he told a gathering of the World Association of Newspapers in Cape Town....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, journalist, MARKETING, NETWORKING, president, WANs
Research articles 2007-06-03
Casualty of War: Censuring Truth in Palestine
AS AESCHYLUS observed nearly 2,500 years ago, "In war, truth is the first casualty." This inevitably places freedom in jeopardy, for when truth is confined to the round file, censored and ultimately eliminated, fear begins to prevail over reason. Convinced that it is the way to safety-and with no evident...
Tags: West Bank
Research articles 2008-11-01
How to Interpret the Banking Fuss Over CIT Group
For Homo Economicus, curled up on his therapist's couch trying to make sense of it all, the fuss over CIT Group is a Rorschach test. Op-edniks at the WSJ interpret the company's turmoil as proof of government favoritism, with the feds backing the big and systemically relevant...
Tags: CIT Group, Banking, Asset Management, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Alain Sherter
Blog posts 2009-07-16
Don't Negotiate With a Gun to Your Head
"I made him an offer that he couldn't refuse." Those words, from the movie The Godfather, have become proverbial for business deals where negotiating isn't possible (or, from the perspective of one party) even necessary. This reveals a great truth - that negotiating is the application of power...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Sales, Customer, rep, Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales representative
Blog posts 2007-08-27
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