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The Company We Keep

Dear Reader,
This blog is now an archive. John Abrams (Founder of South Mountain, author of this blog, and a book of the same name) retired on December 31, 2022. All posts published up until this date are preserved below.

For updates on John's next chapter, visit abramsangell.com.

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Bernie Sanders

All in a Company Meeting

December 23, 2015 by John Abrams Leave a Comment

We began our recent year-end company meeting by reviewing finances, work completed, work ahead, affordable housing projects in the pipeline, solar sales and installations, and a variety of compelling and not-so-compelling metrics and indicators.

It has been a very good year, as were the two that came before.  A robust trifecta.  One of our younger employees, Ian Gumpel, asked why we’re doing so well.  Great question.  I mumbled a few dis-jointed explanations that didn’t quite add up.  Later I thought more and the next day I wrote a brief addendum to everyone that said in part, about Ian’s question,  “As a friend of ours, Devon Hartman, once said, ‘The key to making a company work is getting all the wood behind one arrow.’  We are making great strides toward doing just that.  Sometimes it doesn’t seem so; the alignment can be obscured by the drama and upheaval of constant change.  But it becomes clear through the lens of our triple bottom line  performance.”

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Filed Under: Collaboration, Design, Energy, South Mountain Company, Triple Bottom Line Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Devon Hartman, Triple Bottom Line, Zingerman's, ZingTrain

Co-ops in the Rise

December 7, 2009 by John Abrams Leave a Comment

I’m still excited about the budding alliance between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Mondragon Cooperatives – and the general awakening consciousness about worker co-operatives and co-operative business in general that I wrote about last month.

And there’s more.

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Collaboration, Economic Crisis, Employee Ownership, Environment, South Mountain Company, Workplace Democracy Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Climate change, Copenhagen, Equal Exchange, Gamesa, Green Jobs Coalition, Mondragon, South Mountain Company, United Steelworkers, Vermont Employee Ownership Center, Worker Cooperatives, Workplace Democracy

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