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.
Read it if…
you run open-book management and want to go further into employee ownership.
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Skip it if…
you have not read The Great Game of Business; start there.
Try instead: The Joy of Leadership →
Three things you will actually use
- Ownership is taught, not granted.
- Open books create accountability.
- 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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