Books and Organizations

Book Resources

The Idea-Driven Organization and Ideas Are Free, Alan Robinson & Dean Schroeder
The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome, Jack Stack
Equity: Why Employee Ownership is Good for Business, The Ownership Edge, and An Ownership Tale, Corey Rosen of the NCEO
Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder, Jody Heymann
The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs & Boost Profits, Zeynep Ton
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big and Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top, Bo Burlingham
Employee Engagement, Macey, Schneider, Barbera, and Young
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, Patrick Lencioni

Organization Resources

The Great Game of Business, (spun out of Springfield Remanufacturing), resources, conference on open book management
National Center for Employee Ownership, resources on employee ownership mechanisms such as ESOPs and broad-based stock options
Beyster Institute/UC San Diego Rady School of Management, (spun out of SAIC), resources on employee ownership mechanisms such as ESOPs and broad-based stock options
Greenleaf/Winning Workplaces, case studies on companies with great workplace engagement strategies
Great Place to Work Institute, employee engagement consulting
The ESOP Association, resources and advocacy for ESOP companies
The Employee Ownership Foundation, promotes employee ownership as a model for business, education, and research
Becoming Employee Owned, resource for businesses looking to transition to employee ownership
Fifty by Fifty, resources to help further the mission of expanding employee ownership
Employee Ownership Expansion Network, seeding employee ownership centers in many states. Click here to find yours
Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership at Rutgers, the largest online global library for employee ownership research and resources

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