Lessons From Over 100 Companies Who Successfully Transformed Themselves. And growing stronger because of it. Additionally, there are more than 50 pages of implementation suggestions, taken from the point of view of both a small and large business. Further, he has a website dedicated to the subject . Nonetheless, I felt the need to contact John and ask a few questions.
Any business needs an appropriate strategy, sufficient capital, good quality, and so forth.
Open-book management just helps the organization function more efficiently and effectively in pursuit of its goals. For John, it's admittedly strong medicine. Open-book is tough to implement. It requires a solid, sustained commitment on the part of top management. Plainly, it would be tougher to convert a General Electric or a Chrysler from a compartmentalized manner of doing business to making everyone informed enough to act and feel as an owner.