Continued learning is an essential part of both running and working at a startup. That’s why, each month, BusinessCollective brings you a new book based on our Young Entrepreneur Councils members’ best reading recommendations. This month: “The Great Game of Business” by Jack Stack.
Stack, a manager at Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, used “the principle of athletic competition and democracy: keeping score, having fun, playing fair, providing choice, and having a voice” to develop his own style of management, as described in the book. According to the website, “The original book, published in 1992, became the primer for open-book management; a (then) new method based on the concept of democracy, the spirit of sports and the reality of numbers.”
Says YEC member W Michael Hsu, CEO of DeepSky, “[It’s] about growing a company using open-book management. I think there are some talks about it but this is the first book I’ve seen that goes in detail on the execution. We are actually taking a lot of ideas from this book and turning it into service products. Great read.”
Says YEC member Jennifer Benz, CEO of Benz Communications, “One of my favorite business books and key to us deciding to implement open-book management!”
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