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The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place
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Abrams is cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company, an employee- owned design and building company on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. In this volume, he offers the 30-person company as a model for how a company can become as much of a community as a business.
Hardcover, 313 pages
Published
May 1st 2005
by Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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John Abrams is the founder of South Mountain Company, a design & build worker-owned cooperative in Marthas Vineyard. His books describes the history of the company, their choice to move to a worker-owned cooperative model, and their overall philosophy of work.
Those principles are:
- Sharing ownership
- Cultivating workplace democracy
- Challenging the gospel of growth
- Balancing multiple bottom lines
- Celebrating the spirit of craft
- Practicing community entrepreneurism
- Thinking like cathedral ...more
Those principles are:
- Sharing ownership
- Cultivating workplace democracy
- Challenging the gospel of growth
- Balancing multiple bottom lines
- Celebrating the spirit of craft
- Practicing community entrepreneurism
- Thinking like cathedral ...more
If you're trying to build anything real and honest and hopeful -- really, anything -- this is a wonderful, straightforward compilation of one cooperative's paradigm of a life doing so, and everything they found useful along the way. The guide book on how to literally construct a beautiful world.
One of John Abrams' many gems:
"The only power is the power of conviction and expertise: to create change we have only to convince each other."
A great Balinese saying quoted within:
"We don't have any art. ...more
One of John Abrams' many gems:
"The only power is the power of conviction and expertise: to create change we have only to convince each other."
A great Balinese saying quoted within:
"We don't have any art. ...more
Mar 08, 2013
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I think everyone interested in sustaining a community should read this book.
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The May 2008 selection for the Sustainable Book club.
A good primer on 'conscious capitalism' in action
Jan 11, 2009
Claire S
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Sounds very utopian and idealistic: am hoping it's also realistic enough that I can hope to be a part of such a thing again (was once, long ago).
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