The Transparency Edge - How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business

Barbara Pagano and Elizabeth Pagano

Copyright 2004 by Barbara Pagano. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher.

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ISBN 0-07-142254-4

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pagano, Barbara.

The transparency edge : how credibility can make or break you in business / By Barbara Pagano, Elizabeth Pagano. p. cm. ISBN 0-07-142254-4 (alk. paper) 1. Business eithics. 2. Leadership—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title.

HF5387.P34 2004 658.4’092—dc21 2003011376

To Junior E. Stapleton, father and grandfather, for his fortitude and love of growing things.