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

Name: Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
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ISBN: 9780385348331

ISBN-10: 0385348339

ISBN-13: 9780385348331

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Authors: Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham

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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&L -- even those without a high school education know how much the toilet paper…

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List price: $25.99
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 7/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Jack Stack is the President and CEO of the Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC), an employee-owned company that supplies remanufactured engines to major automotive companies. He lives in Springfield, Missouri.



Introduction to the Expanded and Updated Edition


Does It Really Work or is it Just a Bunch of Hype?


The Higher Laws of Business


The Ultimate Higher Law



Why We Teach People How to Make Money



Myths of Management



The Feeling of a Winner



The Big Picture



Open-Book Management



Setting Standards



Skip the Praise-Give Us the Raise



Coming Up with the Game Plan



The Great Huddle



A Company of Owners



The Highest Level of Thinking



The Ultimate Higher Law: A Message to Middle Managers


G Get in the Game: The "Interactive" Guide


Acknowledgments