A proven tool for sharpening one's competitive edgeToday's leading organizations have seized on the concept of transparency as the key to gaining the confidence of investors, employees, and customers-and gaining profits. In The Transparency Edge, leadership expert Barbara Pagano demonstrates that transparency is more than an excellent policy-it is a powerful management skill that managers can learn and use to make themselves and their organizations more competitive.Presenting the nine behaviors that every successful leader uses to gain a transparency edge, Pagano shows readers how to use these techniques to build loyalty, gain trust, and establish an impeccable reputation for integrity. She also shows how this nothingto- hide approach enables organizations and their leaders to: * Make decisions more efficiently and execute them more effectively * Speed up operations * Identify problems sooner and solve them faster * Build trust and collaboration within the organization * Establish a higher level of credibility