Gift of Power
It takes faith in your people to see empowerment as a formula for success, but examples of organizations that have made the leap are multiplying. You can see it in many of the companies that make Fortune’s annual list of the “100 Best Places to Work in America.” The gift of power is central to the “open book management” movement, inspired particularly by Jack Stack of Springfield Remanufacturing. Stack tells a persuasive story of turning around a moribund manufacturing company in Missouri by giving employees as much financial information as possible so that they began to think and act like owners. Stack’s “ultimate higher law” is that you get the highest performance when you appeal to the highest level of thinking. The success of ...
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