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A Stake in the Outcome by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham — WisdomDeck honest review
Honest review · Leadership

A Stake in the Outcome

by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham

Stack's sequel to The Great Game of Business on building an ownership culture: equity for employees, open-book management in practice, and the difficulties of making people think like owners. Honest about what failed as well as what worked.

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you run open-book management and want to go further into employee ownership.

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you have not read The Great Game of Business; start there.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Ownership is taught, not granted.
  2. Open books create accountability.
  3. Equity without education does not change behavior.

Do this first

Teach your team one financial metric this month and let them track it.

Our verdict

Honest ownership-culture sequel.

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