What is the Great Game of Business?
President and CEO of Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation (SRC), Jack Stack has an innovative game plan for success. Everybody learns. Everybody plays. Everybody wins.
The Great Game of Business has helped thousands of organizations increase their bottom line with its proven open-book management system. It’s not a fad and it isn’t a one shot deal. It’s an intelligent, common sense way of doing business.
Beyond receiving their paychecks, do your employees really care about the success of the company? Do they understand how their work impacts the company’s business objectives? Do they know what drives it? Do they know what it takes to run a successful business? Imagine what it would be like if they finally realized that what they do really does make an impression on the Triple Bottom Line performance of the company.
The Basic Concept
The Great Game of Business provides a total management system that encompasses the basic components of a game, applies them to the art of running a business, and encourages the players (employees) to understand and help control the destiny of their business while they improve the quality of their life.
On the Great Game playing field, your employees will: 1. Create the financial, environmental, and socials. 2. Set up incentive programs that will reward their performance. 3. Learn to forecast the results. 4. Learn what drives the results. 5. Track and communicate the progress of the company and the game. 6. Share the rewards of good performance.
You might be wondering just how big the stakes are in this game. Our company, SRC started as a small, struggling division of International Harvester (IH). Back then, the company was floundering and the future was anything but bright. A group of supervisors and managers pooled their resources and took a leap of faith. They purchased the factory from IH. Our stock at the time was valued at a whopping ten cents a share. We’ve grown from 116 employees to more than a thousand employee-owners who have helped launch 20 subsidiary companies. SRC is one of the most successful employee-owned corporations in the United States. Today, SRC stock goes for more than $55 a share!
The more employees know about a company, the better that company will perform. Given the opportunity and information, people will focus on the important issues facing their company once they realize they have a stake in the outcome: good or bad. The Great Game of Business puts that knowledge into the hands of your workers—-your most important asset. This empowers employees to make good business decisions and tackle the most challenging business contests with team spirit, cooperation and collaboration. In turn, that creates success for the entire organization and nurtures an environment where everyone gets involved.
What is it about competition that drives us all? Whether it’s a killer game of Monopoly or some cutthroat putting on the 18th green: we all have an inherent desire to WIN. What if we could approach our day-to-day business activities with the same state of preparation, the same level of knowledge, the same enthusiasm and, most importantly, the same burning desire to triumph as we do with any competitive endeavor we pursue?
We can and will become one of the most successful Cooperatives in the business.
