For DEJ post #10 I decided to do my journal entry on the chapter in the readings section of module #5 called “Transparency And Authenticity, The Value of Open Communication” by Daniel Lubetzky.

Text to self: This chapter heavily related to multiple assignments we had to work on this week in module #5, as the whole week was dedicated to this very Transparency and Authenticity theme. As all of ethics is based on transparency and authenticity of data, actions, words, trust, and open communication. Companies who lack these key characteristics find themselves falling behind other companies naturally such as the landscaping company I used to work for which was family owned and run. The failure of transparency between the family members who ran the business was the eventual dagger that sunk the companies reputation and trust within the management which correlated to public trust as a company as a whole.

Text to text: This chapter reminds me of a historical documentary I watched called Chernobyl (HIGHLY RECOMMEND) as it goes over the lack of transparency of the Soviet Union and the lack of public trust that followed the Nuclear disaster caused by the concealment of the truth. In module #5 alone we have looked at a multitude of disasters and failures of companies all caused by concealment of information and the lack of transparency. Without open communications it creates an environment of false safety and untrust within employee’s, offical’s, management, and customers and has been the tragic downfall of hundreds of thousands companies along the short human history we have.

Text to world: This text relates to many things in the world as not only companies that lack transparency fail so do people that lack transparency. Holding truths or just not letting them be common open communitive knowledge is the back bone of losing trust and reputation for companies and people as individuals. Yet their is a person or company today that received information that would raise an ethical concern in a person, product, or service that would cost money to the company and or people accountable that was probably just covered up to save their own butt’s. It is simply human nature to choose the easier less safe, less sensible path in instances such as this but it is our job to try and change this trend together.