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The opensouce.com community is growing fast, and we're trying to figure out who we are and what we care about. The more we know about ourselves, the more relevant our content…
The opensouce.com community is growing fast, and we're trying to figure out who we are and what we care about. The more we know about ourselves, the more relevant our content…
Shortly after we published Telling the open source story - Part 1, Jelly Helm--the creator of the the Wikimedia Foundation videos discussed in that piece--came to speak to the…
Transparency is obviously good business in that it builds trust between you and the people you do business with. That trust has a real value.
But it also "feels good" if you are working for a company that has everything on the table, when you know what's going on, and why. It's a sense of being respected, and trusted. You know you are valuable when you are trusted in that way. It makes you work harder and more earnestly. I don't know if there are any studies or data to back this up, but in my own experience, I know that it increases productivity. It gives workers a stake in what is happening beyond meeting deadlines and collecting a paycheck.
And when you know what is going on, and why, you are more apt to make more relevant contributions and do things that actually move your company forward. It's nice to put your creativity into actual work, rather than guessing what you should do based on incomplete information.
Feeling good, respected, valued and trusted when you sit down at your desk just makes everything easier.
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I also love having the links, but we could probably do something to make link-heavy pieces like this. more readable.
Transparency is obviously good business in that it builds trust between you and the people you do business with. That trust has a real value.
But it also "feels good" if you are working for a company that has everything on the table, when you know what's going on, and why. It's a sense of being respected, and trusted. You know you are valuable when you are trusted in that way. It makes you work harder and more earnestly. I don't know if there are any studies or data to back this up, but in my own experience, I know that it increases productivity. It gives workers a stake in what is happening beyond meeting deadlines and collecting a paycheck.
And when you know what is going on, and why, you are more apt to make more relevant contributions and do things that actually move your company forward. It's nice to put your creativity into actual work, rather than guessing what you should do based on incomplete information.
Feeling good, respected, valued and trusted when you sit down at your desk just makes everything easier.