In recent articles, I have written about how businesses that lack a defined and unifying purpose experience lower productivity; shared my thoughts on how companies can drive growth through the unification of purpose; and offered a methodology for driving value creation and sustainable prosperity. In this article, the focus is on driving productivity by turning employees into owners through the implementation of an equity ownership offering (either real or synthetic). In giving employees a stake in the company, the objective is to motivate them to do what is best for the shareholders since they are also shareholders.
