The Great Game of Business started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that created unprecedented profit and employee engagement. The revised and updated edition of The Great Game of Business lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn’t dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs when their parent company, International Harvester, went down the tubes. What these workers created was a revolutionary approach to management that has proven itself in every industry around the world for the past thirty years—an approach that is perhaps the last, best hope for reviving the American Dream.

The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company

Business & Money

Burlingham, Bo

STACK,JACK

Management & Leadership

Crown Currency

In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. That's when a green young manager, Jack Stack, took over and turned it around. He didn't know how to "manage" a company, but he did know about the principal, of athletic competition and democracy: keeping score, having fun, playing fair, providing choice, and having a voice. With these principals he created his own style of management -- open-book management. The key is to let everyone in on financial decisions. At SRC, everyone learns how to read a P&amp;L -- even those without a high school education know how much the toilet paper they use cuts into profits. SRC people have a piece of the action and a vote in company matters. Imagine having a vote on your bonus and on what businesses the company should be in. SRC restored the dignity of economic freedom to its people. Stack's "open-book management" is the key -- a system which, as he describes it here, is literally a game, and one so simple anyone can use it. As part of the Currency paperback line, the book includes a "User's Guide" -- an introduction and discussion guide created for the paperback by the author -- to help readers make practical use of the book's ideas. Jack Stack is the president and CEO of the Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, in Springfield, Missouri. The recipient of the 1993 Business Enterprise Trust Award, Jack speaks throughout the country on The Great Game Of Business and Open Book Management.

The Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book Management

Currency/Doubleday

The First Management Classic of the New Millennium! A bold experiment is taking place these days, as leading-edge companies turn upside down the management paradigm that has dominated corporate thinking for more than one hundred years. Southwest Airlines is perhaps the most visible practitioner, soaring through economic downturns while its competitors slash their budgets and order massive layoffs, but you can find other pioneers of the new approach in almost every industry and market niche. Their secret: a culture of ownership that allows them to tap into the most underutilized resource in business today–namely, the enthusiasm, intelligence, and creativity of working people everywhere. No one knows more about building a culture of ownership than CEO Jack Stack, who’s been working on one for the past twenty years with his colleagues at SRC Holdings Corporation (formerly Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation). Along the way, they’ve turned their company into what Business Week has called a “management Mecca,” attracting thousands of people representing hundreds of businesses to SRC’s home in Springfield, Missouri. There the visitors learn how to incorporate the ideals and values of SRC’s remarkable corporate culture into their own organizations–and then they go back and do it. Now, in A Stake in the Outcome, Stack offers a master class on creating a culture of ownership, presenting the hard-won lessons of his own twenty-year journey and explaining what it really takes to build for long-term success. The pioneer of “open-book management” (described in the best-selling classic The Great Game of Business), Stack and twelve other managers began their journey in 1982, when they purchased their factory from its struggling parent company. SRC grew 15 percent a year, while adding almost a thousand new jobs, and the company’s stock price rocketed from 10 cents to $81.60 per share. In the process, Stack discovered that long-term success required constant innovation–and that building a culture of ownership involved much more than paying bonuses, handing out stock options, or setting up an employee stock ownership plan. In a successful ownership culture, every employee had to take the fate of the company as personally as an individual owner would. Achieving that level of commitment was extraordinarily difficult, but Stack realized that the payoff would be enormous: a company that was consistently able to outperform the market. A Stake in the Outcome isn’t about theory–it’s about practice. Stack draws from his own successes and failures at SRC to show how any company can teach its employees to think and act like owners, including how to implement an effective equity-sharing program, how to promote continuous learning at every level of the organization, how to fire up employees’ competitive juices, how to broaden the concept of leadership and delegate responsibility for the business, and how to build a workforce that is fast on its feet and ready to take advantage of every opportunity. You’ll also learn about other companies that have succeeded in building cultures of ownership–and the lessons they can teach the rest of us. Written in Jack Stack’s straightforward, witty, no-beating-around-the-bush style, A Stake in the Outcome is like having a one-on-one session with a master entrepreneur and business innovator. It shows managers and executives of companies both large and small how to build a ferociously motivated workforce that is energized and committed to meeting and overcoming the most daunting challenges a company can face.

A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business

Doubleday Business

Business Culture

Transforming Businesses, Changing LivesThe goal of playing the Great Game of Business has always been tofind a way to teach the have-nots how the haves make it. It's aboutcreating and distributing wealth equitably as a way to close those gapsin wealth that plague our society. It's about changing the game.We wrote CHANGE THE GAME for those of you who continue to seek abrighter side of capitalism, one that truly transforms lives for thebetter. This book is about hope: no matter how grim things look, youcan make them better. You don't have to wait for someone to bail youout. You have the ability to attain peace, security, and happiness.That's what we think the American dream is all about.It's our continuing belief that, through building successfulorganizations, we can change the world for the better. We can givepeople the tools to bring about positive change in our society. CHANGETHE GAME is filled with stories that demonstrate the transformativeeffects that happen when people embrace a system that makes workfun and rewarding for everyone who plays.

Change The Game: Saving The American Dream By Closing The Gap Between The Haves And The Have-Nots

Dahl, Darren

Advantage Media Group

In the early 1980s, springfield remanufacturing corporation (src) in springfield, missouri, was a near bankrupt division of international harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the united states, with a share price 3000 times what it was thirty years ago. This miracle turnaround is all down to one man, jack stack, and his revolutionary system of open-book management, in which every employee understands the company's key figures, can act on them and has a real stake in the business. In stack's own words: 'when employees think, act and feel like owners . Everybody wins. ' as a management strategy, 'the great game of business' is so simple and effective that it's been taken up by companies from exxon to the body shop and ben & jerry's (and possibly even profile books).

The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company [Paperback] [Jul 04, 2013] Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham

Profile Books, Ltd.

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The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company

The Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book Management

A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business

A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business

Change The Game: Saving The American Dream By Closing The Gap Between The Haves And The Have-Nots

The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company [Paperback] [Jul 04, 2013] Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham