361. Greg Graves Lays Out Why Employee Ownership is Better for America
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Show Notes
In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Greg Graves, retired Chairman and CEO of Burns & McDonnell. Greg led one of the fastest-growing and most successful engineering, architecture, construction and environmental consulting firms in North America. In his 13 years as CEO, employment (and therefore the number of employee-owners) quadrupled, revenues grew 10-fold to $3 Billion, and the company produced an average ROI in excess of 25% each year – all organically. Fortune Magazine listed Burns & McDonnell among it’s Top 100 Best Places to Work list six times, reaching #14 in 2014. His best-selling book Create Amazing about employee ownership has held the #1 positions in the Business, Human Resources and Democracy categories at Amazon.
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SHOW NOTES:
GREG GRAVES:
- BIO: Greg Graves Bio
- BOOK:
- ARTICLES & VIDEO CLIPS:
- CEO Greg Graves Announces Retirement
- Retired Burns & McDonnell CEO Greg Graves on Improving Business and Empowering Workers
- Video Clip: Greg Graves retirement and plans
- Graves May Be Leaving Burns & McDonnell, but He’ll Remain a Civic Force in KC — Ingram’s
- These Kansas City philanthropists built a private lake for family, friends and charity — Kansas City Spaces, The Kansas City Star
- HIGH PRAISE for Greg Graves’ Create Amazing book:
- Create Amazing reached #1 for Business, #1 for Human Resources and #1 for Democracy categories at Amazon over different times.
- In 2023, the United States Senate reached out to Greg and asked for 100 copies, one for each member.
- Rutgers University School of Business Annual Book Award is called the Joyce Rothschild Prize for Economic Democracy. Semi-Finalist, then Finalist, finally 2nd prize…2023.
- The London Book Awards (Cambridge) Semi-Finalist, then Finalist for the International Business Book of the Year….2022.
- Good to Great Author Jim Collins: “In Create Amazing, Greg Graves argues persuasively that employee ownership—-done the right way and for the right reasons——can be a catalytic force for economic prosperity and corporate endurance.”
- University of Kansas Chancellor Doug Girod: “Greg Graves’ dynamic leadership of a highly successful large multinational employee-owned company provides him with a unique perspective of wealth building in America.”
- United States Senator Jerry Moran: “As Create Amazing makes clear, employee ownership has a rich history in our country—-and a strong future. Greg Graves has given us a How-To Manuel for combining good politics and economic policy to reduce economic disparity and improve the financial well-being of our nation.