Excel at What Doesn't Come Naturally
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Open-Book Management
5 Ways to Build Trust Fast
Today faith only goes so far. Earning trust is the sure path to success. Brian Halligan, CEO Of HubSpot, shares five tips for building trust fast. Read more
Power of Financial Transparency With Employees
Make sure your staff understands how money flows through your company. You'll improve the bottom line. Read more
Best Ways to Thank Your Employees
Genuine appreciation goes a long way. Here's a guide to get the most out of a brief note, no matter who you're thanking. Read more
Testing a Company's Commitment to Transparency
When executives at Return Path decided to sell a division, they also had to decide whether they would bend their commitment to openness and transparency. Read more
Recent Open-Book Management Articles
How to Build a Beautiful Company
Employing open-book management and leadership by consensus, the Sky Factory's Bill Witherspoon has set out to create the perfect business. Read more
Great Workplaces By the Numbers
Impressive statistics from the 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces winners and finalists. Read more
Opening the Books and Motivating Workers
How companies such as Pool Covers and Ginger Bay Salon & Spa use open-book management to get the best out of their employees. Read more
Letting Employees Run the Company
To manage themselves, the employees of Tasty Catering studied the principles that author Jim Collins espoused in Good to Great . Read more
How to Build a Profit Sharing Plan
Align your interests with the financial well being of your employees, and good things can happen. Read more
One Company's Budget: The 'Great Game' of Open-Book Management
An IT company's commitment to open-book management helps calm anxious employees while boosting revenue. Read more
Why a CEO Needs to Have a Plan B
For nearly three decades, in good times and bad, Jack Stack has run his company, SRC, as though disaster could strike at any moment. Now, with the economy cr... Read more
Survival Story 
Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Ping Fu discusses her software firm Geomagic. Having survived Chinese prisons, she came to America and built Geomag... Watch video
The Zingerman Empire
Ari Weinzweig, co-founder of Zingerman's Community of Businesses, talks about generating a company culture that puts the customer first. With innovations ... Watch video
Jack Stack on Paying for Performance
Jack Stack is President of SRC Holding Corp. and co-author of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome . Read more
How to Practice Open-Book Management
Are you prepared to share your financial statements with your employees? Read more
Boosting Performance with Critical Numbers
Learn how to figure out your company's critical numbers -- and how to use them to build a stronger company. Read more
Show Them the Money
A demonstrate with actual dollars can teach employees your cost structure, so they'll make better decisions. Read more
Everyone's a Cost Cutter
Two entrepreneurs give advice on cutting costs through open-book management. Read more
Teaching Employees to Understand Costs
Sony Display Tube teaches employees to understand costs -- actual and opportunity -- which allows them to make better, big-picture, decisions every day. Read more
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