The Whole Brain Concept

Kip Tindell is the CEO of the Dallas based Container Store. He is a graduate of Jesuit High School in Dallas. He writes the following:

Leadership and communication are the same thing. We believe in relentlessly communicating everything to every single employee. There's never a reason to keep information from an employee, except for individual salaries.

We're big on what we call the whole brain concept, which is simply trying to eliminate silos. So we probably have more people than we need in each meeting , and we don't believe that's unproductive. We get a lot of innovation that way.