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Jack Stack

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Rich Armstrong

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Steve Baker

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Creating Stability During A Recession

Leading With Empathy and Transparency During Times of Uncertainty

Humanizing Business - Movement vs. Action

Preparing For The Upturn

Creating A 90-Day Plan During A Recession

Business Can Transform The Wealth Gap

Jack Stack On MiniGames

Going After Talent In A Recession

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Jack Stack

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As President and CEO, Jack has helped grow the diverse SRC Holdings family of ten businesses into a leading brand in the automotive and off-highway markets with annual sales nearing $1 billion and a workforce of over 2,000 employee-owners.

SRC’s journey began in 1983 when Jack led an employee buyout of a single factory from International Harvester. From its start, SRC embraced a new system for running a business. Jack details that journey and the “open-book management” practices SRC adopted in his acclaimed books, The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome, which he co-authored with Bo Burlingham. Jack also wrote a third book, Change The Game: Saving the American Dream by Closing the Gap Between The Haves And The Have-Nots with Darren Dahl.

Under Jack’s leadership, and their commitment to employee empowerment and ownership, business literacy, and financial transparency, SRC has earned numerous accolades over the years, including the National Business Ethics Award, the Business Enterprise Trust Award, and the Txemi Cantera International Prize in Bilbao, Spain. Jack also became the first sitting CEO to be named to an Executive Fellowship at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.

Away from work, Jack is a dedicated philanthropist in his community of Springfield, Missouri, including founding the Boys and Girls Clubs “Invest to Invest Club” to support youth programs and foster business understanding among club members. Jack is also devoted to his family, celebrating 51 years of marriage with his wife, Betsy, and cherishing the roles of father to five children and grandfather to 13. When he’s not at home with his family, you can find Jack bass fishing out on the Table Rock Lake where he’s still chasing the big one that got away.

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Rich Armstrong

Rich Armstrong has thirty years of experience in improving business performance and employee engagement through open-book management and employee ownership, with service as a business coach and as a current executive at SRC Holdings Corp.

He coauthored Get in the Game as well as the update of the number one bestseller, The Great Game of Business—20th Anniversary Edition.

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Steve Baker

Steve Baker is Vice President of The Great Game of Business, Inc. He coauthored Get in the Game as well as the update of the number one bestseller, The Great Game of Business—20th Anniversary Edition. Steve is a top-rated coach on open-book management, strategy and execution, leadership, and employee engagement.

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Speaking Topics

By Steve Baker and Rich Armstrong

Get In The Game: How to Create Rapid Financial Results and Lasting Cultural Change

The Great Game of Business is the only business operating system that reconciles the people/profits paradox, balancing the need for profit with the needs of people. In Get In The Game, Steve Baker explains the rules of this Game.

High Involvement Strategic Planning

Employee involvement is crucial to High-Involvement Planning. Learn how when you involve everyone in the strategic planning process, their individual tasks become better aligned with the overarching company goals, and that synergy drives success.

The War for Talent: Unexpected Strategies on Employee Engagement

When people begin to understand how their contributions impact the business and they are encouraged and rewarded to help it thrive, that’s when they begin to have a stake in the outcome.

By Jack Stack

The Great Game of Business

The best-seller, The Great Game of Business, started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that creates unprecedented profit and employee engagement. Jack will lead you through this entirely different way of running a company that has proven itself in every industry around the world for the past thirty years.

Change The Game: Saving the American Dream by Closing the Gap Between the Haves and Have Nots

The goal of playing the Great Game of Business has always been to find a new way to teach the have-nots how the have make it. It’s about creating and distributing wealth equitably as a way to close those gaps in wealth that plague our society. In Change the Game Jack will share stories that demonstrate the transformative effects that happen when people embrace a system that makes work fun and rewarding for everyone who plays.

Books

The Great Game of Business

The Great Game of Business, by Jack Stack, started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that created unprecedented profit and employee engagement.

Change the Game

This book is about hope: no matter how grim things look, you can make them better. It’s our continuing belief that, through building successful organizations, we can change the world for the better. We can give people the tools to bring about positive change in our society. CHANGE THE GAME is filled with stories that demonstrate the transformative effects that happen when people embrace a system that makes work fun and rewarding for everyone who plays.

Get in the Game

In 1983, Jack Stack created a new game: The Great Game of Business. Get In The Game further explains the rules of this Game: to win, you must get everyone at all levels of the business as informed, involved, and engaged as the owner. This book offers a step-by-step guide on how to teach employees the numbers, show them the big picture, and let them have a say in the company’s future. The Game has already benefited thousands of companies: Is yours ready to get in The Game?