The Leadership Forum at Silver Bay: A Legacy Of Leadership

Jack Stack

Leadership Forum 1999

Jack Stack is the Founder and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation, an award-winning, employee-owned organization based in Springfield, Missouri. Jack is considered by many to be the “Father of Open-Book Management” a business philosophy, that teaches employees to think and act like entrepreneurial business owners.

Applying this strategy SRC’s stock has grown in value from $.10 a share in 1983 to $120 a share in 2005 and experienced phenomenal growth, spawning more than 40 new business ventures – and creating hundreds of new jobs. Today SRC employs 1,200 people and generates annual revenue of $230 million.

Jack is the co-author of the best-selling business books The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. His work on open-book management and how it can have a tremendously positive impact on people’s lives, their workplaces and the community at large have inspired Inc. magazine to call him the “smartest strategist in America” and name him one of twenty-five entrepreneurs selected to represent the 25 years Inc. has been published.