Overview
Create Amazing is the go-to guide for creating incredible results for workers, companies, and our country through employee ownership.
Full Product Details
Author: Greg Graves
Publisher: BenBella Books
Imprint: Matt Holt Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9781637744994
ISBN 10: 1637744994
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 06 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
As Create Amazing makes clear, employee ownership has a rich history in our country-and a strong future. Greg Graves has given us a how-to manual for combining good politics and economic policy to reduce economic disparity and improve the financial well-being of our nation. -Jerry Moran, US Senator, Kansas How should we solve economic inequality? Greg Graves, former CEO of one of the most important employee-owned corporations in the United States suggests we encourage the employees to buy the most successful firms in the country using credit and tax incentives using the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). -Joseph Blasi, director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University Greg Graves is not a theoretician sitting in an ivory tower, but a leader who built an incredibly successful company based on a model of shared capitalism: an ESOP. Create Amazing tells you how to bring this competitive advantage to your own company. -Stephen Smith, CEO, Amsted Industries Greg Graves's new book is a must-read for any business leader thinking about how to transition the company into an ownership structure that will build productivity, loyalty, profits, and employee financial security . . . I cannot recommend this book highly enough. -Stephanie Silverman, CEO, S-Corporations of America Through this book, Greg Graves offers a comprehensive blueprint for how to improve businesses through employee ownership. His practical ideas and civic-minded approach will redesign the workplace and reinvigorate the American economy. -Stuart R. Bell, president, The University of Alabama Greg Graves's dynamic leadership of a highly successful large multinational employee-owned company provides him with a unique perspective of wealth building in America. -Doug Girod, chancellor, University of Kansas
Author Information
Greg Graves is newly retired as Chair/CEO of Burns McDonnell Engineering, and he has been chairman of the board for two iconic Kansas City metro institutions that are trailblazers in fields he is extremely passionate about-healthcare and the arts. Greg was named chair of the University of Kansas Hospital Authority Board after serving as a board member since 2009. The Kansas City Repertory Theatre also appointed Greg as chairman of its board from 2017-19. On the board of publicly owned UMB Financial Corporation, a $25B bank headquartered in Kansas City, Greg serves as the board's Lead Independent Director and chairs the nominating committee.
