The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small

Some business books try to teach success in a competitive marketplace. In The Company We Keep, John Abrams shows how a company can flourish as a part of a thriving community of people dependent on one another. His eight cornerstone principles, including employee ownership and long-term thinking, express the entrepreneurial spirit as a potent force for change-with profitable results that extend across multiple bottom lines. Book jacket.

John Abrams is the president and CEO of South Mountain Company, an employee-owned design/build firm on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. South Mountain won the 2005 Business Ethics magazine's award for workplace democracy.

Foreword

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1. Cornerstones

1

(24)

2. Cultivating Workplace Democracy

25

(28)

3. Challenging the Gospel of Growth

53

(24)

4. Balancing Multiple Bottom Lines

77

(22)

5. Committing to the Business of Place

99

(32)

6. Celebrating the Spirit of Craft

131

(32)

7. Advancing People Conservation

163

(30)

8. Practicing Community Entrepreneurism

193

(20)

9. Thinking Like Cathedral Builders

213

(24)

10. The Company We Keep

237

(12)

Acknowledgments

249

(8)

Appendices

1. South Mountain Employee Ownership Particulars

257

(8)

2. Meeting Facilitation and Consensus Decision Making

265

(10)

3. South Mountain's Vineyard Future Sketch

275

(18)

Notes

293

(8)

Selected Bibliography and Resources

301

(4)

Index

305

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