The new leader paradigm – transparency
Monday, April 14th, 2008“You no longer have the classic carrot-and-stick approach to leadership. We have 90,000 people who work with us and I as a leader can’t do a performance appraisal on them, can’t offer them a bonus, can’t demote and fire them. So how do you induce them to do things they might not do otherwise? By being more open than you’ve ever been. In this new world, the most transparent leader is the most attractive leader. The leader who figures out a way for everybody to win is going to be the leader who wins. The leader who comes with a zero-sum mentality gets zero.”
Darren Carroll, CEO of InnoCentive
From the book “Mavericks At Work,” Bill Taylor and Polly LaBarge, HarperCollins, 2006.