Gary Johnson Quotes

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Dialoging is the first principle of good government.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Accountability begins with transparency.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

I'm a person who believes in close monitoring and knowing what everyone on the staff is doing.

Government will have to learn what private businesses are beginning to realize that in this increasingly transparent world, the successful organizations will be those that are able to operate with very few secrets…. The cost of maintaining secrecy is getting higher and higher even when it can be done at all.

Governments and local administrative bodies decide to inform the public of their mistakes only when losses have become disproportionately great.

To Any Officer or Employee of the Government: Please tell Mr. Lincoln Steffens anything whatever about the government that you know (not incompatible with the public interest) and provided only that you tell him the truth—no matter what it might be—I will see to it that you are not hurt. T. Roosevelt.

Trust brings a higher level of communication and a higher level of commitment and accountability.

Transparency matters.

Players are smart. That locker room knows. So don't hide anything.

For me it was just about staying the course, staying true to who I believe that I am, being open, being honest, being transparent with the players, being firm with the players but at the same time listening to the players.

Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.

I had a rule - I didn't have a lot of rules - and one of them was we're going to operate from a mutual respect. I won't embarrass you, and I don't expect you to be embarrass me.

I like knowing where my teammates are without having to look.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

I'm very open about my referencing; I'm very open about who I work with.

It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.