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5 Ways to Reinvigorate Your Financial Literacy

Opening the books only works when people are taught to understand them — which is best done both formally and informally. When The Game is created with broad participation — specifically the people who are closest to the action and who understand the realities — it creates a level of commitment and alignment that just can't be matched.
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The Must Have Elements of a MiniGame

Co-authored by Jack O'Riley MiniGames™ are a powerful tool for engaging your team while pursuing an opportunity or tackling a weakness within your company. These short-term improvement challenges drive performance metrics that contribute to the year-end revenue goal in addition to impacting behaviors of your employees. Engaging employees through an incentivized program provides an opportunity to develop your staff and discover their hidden skill-sets. Often times, MiniGames also improve teamwork and employee satisfaction scores. What does it take to put together a MiniGame? Be sure to include these must-have elements when developing your next short-term incentive challenge:
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About The Great Game of Business

Our approach to running a company was developed to help close one of the biggest gaps in business: the gap between managers and employees. We call our open-book approach The Great Game of Business. What lies at the heart of The Game is a very simple proposition: The best, most efficient, most profitable way to operate a business is to give everybody in the company a voice in saying how the company is run and a stake in the outcome. Let us teach you how to develop a culture of ownership, where employees think, act and feel like owners.