Acknowledging no "silver bullet" exists to prevent the past financial excesses from recurring, Paulson called for steps to be taken to ensure enhanced transparency, disclosure and risk management.

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Enhanced transparency in the ratings industry is always welcome.

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In the wake of the UBS scandal, of course, the IRS has sought to compel enhanced transparency with foreign accounts, pushing institutions and governments to reveal accounts owned by or for Americans.

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The companies that are supporting this lawsuit risk losing not only the confidence of investors and the consuming public, but also fighting a battle against a fast-evolving and increasingly coordinated movement to push broader disclosure, to bring enhanced transparency to corporate practices and decision-making and to ultimately make companies practice corporate social responsibility throughout their operations and decision-making.

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This enhanced accessibility, transparency, and shared ownership of the transition.

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This week of new or enhanced suspicions had best lead to months of greater transparency and truth-telling, or much shared global progress is at risk.

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Even with seemingly negative rumors, he take the opportunity to bring the company back to its four core values: Training and development, professionalism, accountability, and transparency, the last of which has been enhanced with the rumor jar, he says.

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The contribution of Agile to enhanced management practices for dealing with complexity is a shift towards valuing transparency, obliquity, informality, expertise and getting real-world results for customers through iterative approaches, as compared to the traditional management approaches of command, control, hierarchy, rules, formal plans, reports, predictability, short-term efficiency and a preoccupation with saving or making money.

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