Transparency Paper Two: The Kubrick Archives and the Power of Conscious Decisions

In a prior post, I attempted to make the argument that chefs of a certain stature are able to leverage transparency towards a profitable end without risk to their business because they enjoy an inherent executional advantage. Here, I’d like to explore a closely-related, yet different side of operational transparency – namely that the opening [...]

Transparency Paper One: The Executional Advantage of Celebrity Cookbooks

With transparency on the mind of so many – Andy Beal (transparency and Steve Jobs), B.L. Ochman (price transparency), Ben McConnell (bailout transparency), Paul Soldera (corporate transparency), Joseph Mann (transparency transparency), Mitch Joel (digital transparency) and Chris Anderson (personal transparency) – as well as frequently on my own mind, I thought that I might begin [...]