This e-book explores transparency as both an approach and an outcome in the management of organizations. Transparency is defined broadly as openness, candor, the free flow of information, and also as dialogue with stakeholders. Transparency is a method of regulation of business and government, a means of self-regulation promoted by some to ward off even more intrusive regulation, an information policy of organizations, a term of art in economics, trade, architecture, arms control, corruption, human communications, leadership, information technology, and more. The forces driving transparency, such as technology and globalization, are making it more difficult for business and government to bury their heads in the sand. Practical application of transparency however is not simple, and so many qualified and interesting people are currently developing this field.