New From the NCEO: An Ownership Tale
NCEO founder and senior staff member
At the end of this year, the NCEO will publish my new short book, An Ownership Tale. I wrote it because of all the company leaders who asked me for a tool to help employees wrestle with the real-life issues of employee ownership without cheerleading, platitudes, or lofty abstractions.
An Ownership Tale is a detailed look inside BTA Associates as it deals with the successes and setbacks in the transition from an ineffective ESOP to an engaged ownership culture. BTA Associates does not exist, but everything that happens in the book is based on stories I have heard over and over in my 30 years of working in this field. The barriers, stumbles, conversations, first steps, and final resolutions are all based on the real experiences of companies and their employee owners.
The 70-page book includes a set of suggested group exercises to help create or improve an ownership culture.