Thirty years later, SRC Holdings Corporation operates 31 business units including joint ventures with John Deere, Case New Holland and Navistar, and maintains two venture capital incubator funds. Using this method, SRC became one of the biggest turn-around stories of its time. The Game was a way to teach employees how business worked in a way that was unintimidating and would make sense to everyone: using the analogy of a game.

Under Stack’s leadership, employees started playing “The Great Game of Business ®”. Once a failing division of International Harvester, SRC made national headlines when CEO, Jack Stack, used unconventional measures to turn the company around. While SRC’s chief business is remanufacturing, the company is best known for being the birthplace of open-book management. SRC Holdings Corporation is a 100% Employee-Owned Company employing over 1,200 people, with sales of over $450,000,000 located in Springfield, Missouri. Jack is the father of five children and grandfather of six. Magazine and The New York Times and has addressed thousands of audiences on the topic of open-book management.

He has also served as a contributor for Inc. Jack has served as a world judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Institute and as an advisor for this group since 1998. Jack designed the first ever United Way Entrepreneurial Fund to encourage innovation within the non-profit community. Along the way, SRC’s stock value has increased 360,000%. His expertise in using the open-book model has helped SRC Holdings Corporation start, acquire, and own over 60 businesses and created thousands of jobs since 1983.

A pioneer of the leadership model known as open-book management, Stack is the author of two books on the subject, The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. Magazine and one of the “ top 10 minds in small business” by Fortune Magazine. Jack has been called the “ smartest strategist in America” by Inc. Jack Stack is Founder, President and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation.

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