Bain preaches a "holy trinity" of tools the company says managers should use to improve collaboration – and thus better business in the long run: empowerment, openness, and co-creation.
I'd come so far with my own feelings about childhood sexual abuse, and my general parenting style ran toward openness.
The push for openness runs counter to the trend of increased secrecy among government officials who cite the need to protect national security.
It was that we had lost track of our basic optimistic philosophy, and were running scared, shunning openness, innovation, risk-taking, extroversion, and future-orientedness in every dimension of life.
That openness philosophy runs the gamut now including letting customers run whatever open source stack they choose on Google's infrastructure, releasing and supporting open source projects and making the ecosystem, the partners who build tools and technologies on top of GCP, a first class citizen on the platform.
In the long run, he argued, greater openness would make monetary policy more effective.
The former is not really news; she has said this many times before, to many interviewers, yet each time she articulates her openness to run – always using exactly the same carefully prepared language – press reaction is huge, particularly in the US, where obsessional interest in all things Clinton mirrors coverage of the royal family here in the UK.
But the incentives that arise from such competition run counter to creativity, openness, and innovation.
Now that's not to say that Google is necessarily dead set on owning the messaging experience on Android; that would run counter to the openness of Android itself, and it's already been confirmed that users can set other SMS apps as the default in Android 4.4 KitKat.
Both critics and proponents agree that the provisions run headlong into demands for openness and accountability when public issues are involved.
