The two discovery themes shaping our coverage right now are Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and strength-
based leadership.

Both themes are important discovery areas when it comes to building better organizations.

It is the journalist's job to learn in full public view and that is what we are doing with our coverage of ESOPs.

While there are several differences between the way ESOPs are able to configure themselves in Canada and the U.S. there are a few things they do have in common.

Their great utility is in facilitating ownership succession from founding owners of businesses to employees and providing a vehicle for employees to invest in their personal futures by way of the business in which they work.

If retirement planning is important to employees there are only a handful of options for seeing to it. Rather than investing all of your retirement plans in that wildly dynamic economic system in which we can all, directly or indirectly, buy shares in companies over which we cannot possibly have any control, an ESOP presents a nice alternative.

 

ESOPs are an intimate, local investment you can get your arms around and know the people responsible for the success of the enterprise, and directly influence through your own performance, the success of the ESOP. Read More