Jack shares how he increased the value of the business by 360,000% since he took a $100k loan in '83 and turned SRC Holdings into a company that now has 1600 employees and $600M in revenue by using open book management (now called the Great Game of Business).

What You Will Learn in Today’s Podcast Interview:

What is different about the current economic climate compared to past recessions

How the company’s financials can be used as a game to drive value and company culture

How the “Report Card” of a business works

Vanity metrics to watch out for and how to identify KPIs that drive future value

How a long-term growth mindset can set both you and your employees up for success

How the open book management approach can accelerate a company’s value growth

The value of identifying the employee associated with each line on an income statement

Why you should educate your employees on the financials of your organization

The financial and personal value of an ESOP

The “Four Legs of the Stool” small business owners need that they often do not prioritize

The opportunities that exist if you have cash on the balance sheet in anticipation of economic downturns

The eight places cash can go to within a company

Podcast Summary:

Jack shares how educating his employees on financial principles and integrating them into the company’s processes allowed them to grow the value of the business into an extraordinary place.

Jack is the author of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. He is also the Founder, President and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation, a 100% employee-owned remanufacturing firm, where he developed the “open book management” business model (now called the Great Game of Business), which promotes financial transparency with the company’s employees

Under Jack’s leadership and with the “open book management” model, SRC Holdings has owned over 60 businesses, increased its stock value 360,000%, does $600,000,000 in revenue and saved an unbelievable $100 million dollars between the 2009 recession and now in anticipation of the next downturn.

They also doubled the size of the business in the five years after each recession they went through.

I’m excited to share this conversation with you today because the insights into sustainable and long-term growth from The Great Game of Business are invaluable for our current economic moment.

Jack and SRC Holdings empower their employees to understand and participate in the company, creating the opportunity to find new ways to grow the value of the business on top of just growing the net income while creating wealth for everyone involved.

 

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About the Jack Stack:

Jack Stack is the President, Founder, and CEO of a remanufacturing company based out of Springfield, Missouri called SRC Holdings. It is a 100% employee-owned corporation with over 1,200 p