The great game of business - Jack Stack

In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the United States, with a share price 3000 times what it was thirty years ago. This miracle turnaround is all down to one man, Jack Stack, and his revolutionary system of Open-Book Management, in which every employee understands the company's key figures, can act on them and has a real stake in the business. In Stack's own words: 'When employees think, act and feel like owners ... everybody wins.'As a management strategy, 'the great game of business' is so simple and effective that it's been taken up by companies from Exxon to The Body Shop and Ben & Jerry's (and possibly even Profile Books).

Jack Stack is Founder, President and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation. The recipient of the 1993 Business Enterprise Trust Award, he speaks throughout the country on Open Book Management and The Great Game Of Business. Stack is also a world judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Institute.

The whole concept of The Great Game of Business is beautiful - consistency, alignment, and transparency, infused with core values and brought to life with powerful mechanisms.
It is inspired and inspiring, a classic.
Jim Collins

Jack Stack's book is a beacon of hope.
Tom Peters, co-author of 'In Search of Excellence'

Jack Stack's open-book approach is generating intense interest among businesses big and small
Wall Street Journal

The brilliant story of the most radical act committed by a businessman in this century.
Paul Hawken, entrepreneur, author, environmentalist and TV host of 'Growing a Business'