When Leaders Let It All Hang Out
December 10, 2010
By Jennifer Miller
I heard an interesting interview last night with Ned Breslin, CEO of the nonprofit Water For People on American Public Media’s Marketplace radio program. Water For People’s mission is to provide safe drinking water all over the world. The interview explored the level of transparency that was created when the organization adopted their FLOW system, which measures the successes — or failures — of global water projects in a very public way. Here’s how transparent it is— people can take a photo or shoot a video of any location of an installed water sanitation system, upload it into the tracking system and measure its effectiveness (or lack thereof) immediately.
Interviewer Kai Ryssdal wondered how that level of transparency was working out for the staff of Water for People.
What do you think?
