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“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:15 NASB)

Openness and transparency—are they a question of culture and leadership style or a spiritual mandate? Control is often an illusion. Those who are too controlling move people from commitment to mere compliance and often too passive if not overt resistance.

Openness, transparency, and free communication come with a set of risks, which are far outweighed by the trust and positive productivity they engender. If people don’t know what’s going on, they will make it up anyway; they might as well talk about what is really happening.

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