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How Open-Book Management Can Empower Employees: An All-Star's Perspective

Craig Durosko, Founder & Chairman of SunDesign, Inc., recently gave his perspective on Open-Book Management to "Housing Zone".

Read the excerpt below and click the link to see the full story.

If you arrived at work and found that there was a fire and everything was gone, there would be nothing you could change. If you were to know in 30 days there was going to be a fire at your office, there are so many things you could do to change the outcome.

Although the example may be extreme, that is what forward forecasting your financials does: It empowers your team to make changes and affect the outcome. It’s better than the alternative of feeling powerless looking at historical numbers they can’t change.

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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.