Transparency

As I walk down the path of compliance and ethics, I continue to find lots of similarities with the themes behind knowledge management and social networks. One thing I have talked about in the past is the important of transparency. Being more open makes your work life and personal life more enriching. Networking is about what you put into the network. the more you put in, the more you get back. Transparency makes a network function better. A law firm and any business is a network.

I ran across a transcript from LRN  of a presentation by Dov Seidman at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University: The Power of How: Achieving Enduring Success Through Ethics.

"Basically, in a world in which nothing stays hidden, you have to act as if you have nothing to hide. But before you can act as though you have nothing to hide, in fact, you must have nothing to hide. There is an opportunity to literally out-behave your competition."

Transparency

One of my principles of knowledge management is transparency.

Knowledge workers should easily be able to find out information on a particular knowledge object (i.e piece of information or document) in a repository. They should know how it got there, who put it there, when it got put there, why it got put there, and where to find it in the repository.