0709 | The Power of Transparency with Dane Atkinson

Published on March 1, 2016. Updated on November 30th, 2023.

0709 | The Power of Transparency with Dane Atkinson

Dane Atkinson is the founder and CEO of SumAll, a company that made headlines for committing to salary transparency and sharing with employees what every other employee gets paid. In addition, SumAll was featured in my book Under New Management. In this interview, Dane and I discuss the downsides of secrecy and the surprising upside of pay transparency.

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In This episode, You’ll Learn:

  • Why keeping pay secret is damaging to employee morale
  • How to make transparency work for your organization
  • Why great leaders don’t reinvent the product; they reinvent the factory

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