March 2018

The business owner’s best kept secret to success and succession

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For most businesses, the employees are the most valuable assets. Imagine, if job satisfaction skyrocketed, how much would that increase the productivity of a business and keep people in their jobs longer term? Studies conducted by the National Center for Employee Ownership found that after becoming employee-owned business productivity increases 4-5% on average and job […]

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With 1 in 6 jobs at risk, how do we turn lemons into lemonade?

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Project Equity was invited to write a piece for The Democracy Collaborative, a national research institution working to build a more democratic economy by growing and preserving community wealth. In it we show, by inventorying retiring business owners, city by city, across the nation, we can gauge how many businesses and jobs are our communities at risk of losing.

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Participatory management

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Our most recent publication highlights the role of participatory management in high-performing businesses, including a spotlight on New Belgium Brewing, a 100% employee-owned company. Participatory management is a management philosophy and approach in which employees at all levels of an organization are engaged in planning and decision-making to optimize organizational effectiveness. This publication serves as an

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