Showing posts with label disent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disent. Show all posts

January 09, 2009

Company Culture: Open or Closed?


"Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent."

Warren Bennis
Organizational Consultant


Does your management encourage opinions that contradict the company's culture? If you are management do you?

Before you answer think about what this means.


If employees do not feel comfortable saying whatever is on their minds, either because they know they will be in trouble if they do or even if it they just fear it will lead to ridicule, it then follows that the company certainly does not reward dissent.


Is encouraging dissent a good thing? Always?