Thom Mayne Quotes

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

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

Sharing is the essence of social media.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

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

We are totally open kimono with regulators.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

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.

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

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.

We are connecting everything to everything

Make sure that everyone who should know what you are doing knows what you are doing.

I want to make sure there are no gatekeepers at the AG's door, and that anybody in the Department - they may have to come relatively late in the evening, just judging by the schedules to date - but if somebody has suggestions for how to make this a better department, that they know I am available.

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.

We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

Internally, we sometimes say Slack is like a nervous system, connective tissue, or the internal network.

There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

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

Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.

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

What I would like is to at least have a discussion with the coach, that he tells me what he thinks. I have to know.

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.