This week we pull from the vault a moving presentation from Clark Gey. Clarke discusses how fairness and equality are not the same thing, why you should not read entitlements in your company, and the power of purpose.

Casey Hildebrandt, Owner of Hildebrandt Tree Tech, tells Steve how being a Great Game company helped to calm the storm, built his confidence as a leader and allowed him to not carry the entire burden of the business alone.

In this episode, Jack Stack reads chapter 7 from Change The Game. This chapter shares a story of a struggling theatre's turnaround just by opening the books.

Rich Armstrong, President at The Great Game of Business, discusses our Great Game Conference highlighting stories from our All Star companies who used The Game to thrive during the pandemic. How using High-Involvement Planning can help you better position your business for the future, and how Great Game practices can improve the productivity of the workforce to combat the current labor shortage.

Highlighting people in different levels of their ESOP journey. A company owner transitioning into ESOP for the betterment of his people, a retired Employee-Owner, and a current and 2nd generation Employee-Owner.

In recognition of ESOPtober, we pulled from the vault, a recording of Rob Zicaro, former frontline employee at Web industries. Rob is now an ESOP Crusader spreading the word on employee ownership. In this speech at a past Great Game of Business Conference, Rob talked about open-book management through the eyes of an employee owner, and he shared a clip from the 1990s when he addressed President Clinton about ESOP companies.

In this episode Rich and Steve discuss with Mike Keesee, President/CEO at Total Solutions Group, how playing The Great Game of Business has helped his team make it through the last year, what is his win often theory and what he sees for the future of Total Solutions Group. 

Jack Stack discusses how the Great Game of Business' living lab SRC Holdings, is using the Game to help get through the current cycle, what Jack sees as the future for SRC Holdings and trends or concerns we should all be watching out for in 2022.

Alan Beaulieu joins Steve and Rich to talk about how surviving the war on talent means having a sticky culture, why we are seeing an inflation that is heading to a recession, followed by a depression, and how you can move your allocations to inflation adjusted assets to weather the storm.

Steve Jones, CEO at Jenner Ag, shares how having a model of Working Together as One and having employees that know the numbers of the business have helped propel their business through every roadmap in their way.