Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, 2nd Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (627 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 160358000X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Startup Required Reading" according to ABuckel. If only this were required reading for every Silicon Valley wannabe out there! Abrams speaks not of exits, but of optimized existence--building persistence and community into your business, and building it for the long term. Today's business media and venture capitalists admires the fast-growing unicorn monoliths & admonishes the crash and burns without questioning the validity of that whole narrative. Abrams' book proves that there is a blueprint for entrepreneurs seeking to build a legacy instead. Change the world : begin at the workplace ! Guy Denutte When we are aware of all the mess we are in, it is important to be able to see some light shining at the end of the tunnel. This book shows a path, told in a passionate way by the author, in which a company has gradually been transformed into an employee-owned company, with a revolutionary new Mission : "To enrich our community through our work" ! The good news is that this experience can easily be reproduced in nearly every company in the world.South Mountain was founded by John Abrams in 1975. As. A. Alexander said An inspiring and practical guide for all progressive minded business people. I highly recommend this book. It is a revision of Abrams' "An inspiring and practical guide for all progressive minded business people" according to A. Alexander. I highly recommend this book. It is a revision of Abrams' 2005 book, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place, which I read when it came out. He takes you through the history of South Mountain, a An inspiring and practical guide for all progressive minded business people I highly recommend this book. It is a revision of Abrams' 2005 book, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place, which I read when it came out. He takes you through the history of South Mountain, a 32 year old design/build company he founded and examines the eight cornerstone philosophies and practices that underpin South Mountain and any green business that wants to harness the power of employee ownership, workplace democracy and community commitment. I met Abr. 2 year old design/build company he founded and examines the eight cornerstone philosophies and practices that underpin South Mountain and any green business that wants to harness the power of employee ownership, workplace democracy and community commitment. I met Abr. 005 book, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place, which I read when it came out. He takes you through the history of South Mountain, a An inspiring and practical guide for all progressive minded business people I highly recommend this book. It is a revision of Abrams' 2005 book, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place, which I read when it came out. He takes you through the history of South Mountain, a 32 year old design/build company he founded and examines the eight cornerstone philosophies and practices that underpin South Mountain and any green business that wants to harness the power of employee ownership, workplace democracy and community commitment. I met Abr. "An inspiring and practical guide for all progressive minded business people" according to A. Alexander. I highly recommend this book. It is a revision of Abrams' 2005 book, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place, which I read when it came out. He takes you through the history of South Mountain, a An inspiring and practical guide for all progressive minded business people I highly recommend this book. It is a revision of Abrams' 2005 book, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place, which I read when it came out. He takes you through the history of South Mountain, a 32 year old design/build company he founded and examines the eight cornerstone philosophies and practices that underpin South Mountain and any green business that wants to harness the power of employee ownership, workplace democracy and community commitment. I met Abr. 2 year old design/build company he founded and examines the eight cornerstone philosophies and practices that underpin South Mountain and any green business that wants to harness the power of employee ownership, workplace democracy and community commitment. I met Abr. year old design/build company he founded and examines the eight cornerstone philosophies and practices that underpin South Mountain and any green business that wants to harness the power of employee ownership, workplace democracy and community commitment. I met Abr
John Abrams is co-founder and president of South Mountain Company, a design/build and renewable energy company on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. In 2005 Business Ethics magazine awarded South Mountain its National Award for Workplace Democracy.William Greider is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation and the author of a number of best-selling books includin
We all need the South Mountain Company--and its human lessons."--Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner. "John Abrams tells a wonderful story, full of ideas about our society
In 2005, that number rose to 350,000. Part memoir and part examination of a new business model, the 2005 release of The Company We Keep marked the debut of an important new voice in the literature of American business. Now, in Companies We Keep, the revised and expanded edition of his 2005 work, John Abrams further develops his idea that companies flourish when they become centers of interdependence, or “communities of enterprise.”Thoroughly revised with an expanded focus on employee ownership and workplace democracy, Companies We Keep celebrates the idea that when employees share in the rewards as well as the responsibility for the decisions they make, better decisions result. Employee ownership—in both the philosophical and the practical sense—is gathering steam as businesses change hands, and Abrams examines some of the many ways this is done.Companies We Keep is structured around eight principles—from “Sharing Ownership” and “Cultivating Workplace Democracy” to “Thinking Like Cathedral Builders” and “Committing to the Business of Place”—that Abrams has discovered in the 32 years since he cofounded South Mountain Company on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. This is an especially timely topic. Projections call for 750,000 ownership transitions in 2009. Most of the b