Table of Contents

* Transforming a Company through Open-Book Management First Principle: The Transparent Company * Overview: The Importance (and Unimportance) of Numbers * Critical Numbers * Financials You Can Actually Use * Scoreboards * Teaching Business Second Principle: A Company Of Businesspeople * Overview: On Empowerment and Other Buzzwords * First Steps: Learning to Take Responsibility * Continuous Empowerment Third Principle: A Stake In Success * Overview: Bonuses, Good and Bad * Bonus Design: Part One * Bonus Design: Part Two * Steal This Bonus! Games: Open-Book Management In Microcosm * Overview: The Meaning of Games * Steal This Game! Implementing Open-Book Management * Overview: The Change Process * Implementation in a Small Company: The Basics * Implementation in a Small Company: The Ten Step Process * Implementation in a Large Company: The Basics * Implementation in a Large Company: The Donnelley Experience * Conclusion: A Way of Thinking

About the Author

Chuck Kremer, CPA, is Senior Business-Literacy Consultant for Boulder-based Educational Discoveries. An originator of "The Financial Game for Decision Making(TM)," he teaches financial-literacy courses to managers and executives around the country.Ron Rizzuto, PH.D., is a professor of finance at the University of Denver, where he co-founded the entrepreneurship program at the Daniels College of Business.John Case is executive editor of the newsletter division at Harvard Business School Publishing. A former senior editor and senior writer for Inc. magazine, he is the author of numerous feature stories and several books on entrepreneurship and open-book management.