Plenty of companies make the move to employee ownership—ESOPs, EOTs, buyouts—and then wonder why nothing really changes. The shares transfer, the announcement goes out, and then... people still feel like employees. The ownership is technically there, but the culture hasn't caught up.

In this mini episode, Rodney and Sam respond to a listener who's seen this gap firsthand and wants to know which parts of the operating system to examine first. Drawing heavily from The Ready's own experience as an EOT, Rodney and Sam make the case that ownership culture lives in three places most companies underinvest in and why checks and balances between long-term purpose and short-term operations are the structural move that makes distributed power meaningful.

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Mentioned references:

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)

EOT (Employee Owned Trust)

The Ready's EOT transition

The Ready's OS Canvas

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Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin och inte av, eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.