It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
Interpretation
Effective communication and honesty are essential in leadership.
In this quote, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. emphasizes the importance of open and truthful communication within an organization. He argues that leaders must treat their team members as equals, sharing all relevant information, rather than withholding it, to foster trust and collaboration.
In practice
During a team meeting to emphasize the importance of transparency in our project updates.
Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.
If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.
It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
Day by day, we are meant to continue the work of building a nation that better reflects the values, honors the diversity, and lives up to the aspirations of every single one of its citizens.
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.
When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.
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