TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stiller,Bob
TI  - Better & Better : : Creating a Culture of Purpose, Excellence, and Transformative Human Engagement 
SN  - 9781265460846
U1  - 338.766393092 23
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - [United States]
PB  - McGraw Hill, 
KW  - Corporate culture
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Employee morale.
KW  - Employee motivation
KW  - Coffee roasting industry
KW  - Business enterprises
KW  - Vermont
KW  - Informational works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The next big thing --; Better and better --;  The gas station coffee --; Putting the "green" in Green Mountain --; Om shanti --; Study what you want to grow --;  Catching lighting in a K-cup --
; Succession --; The journey continues
N2  - Decades before the business world discovered the power of authentic staff engagement, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters cofounder Bob Stiller was busy creating a company with a mission to build an engaged workforce focused on innovation. In the end, Green Mountain became a place where people realized they could make a difference, where their input mattered, where they were rewarded fairly, and where they can grow. It became a place workers feel good about. A community. A happy place that got better and better. And business results followed. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters went public, moved to selling wholesale exclusively, invested in Keurig, and became one of the few coffee companies to ever reach $1 billion in sales. It became one of the top-performing stocks of the 1990s on the Nasdaq exchange, and from 1995 to 2015, its stock had a 70 percent compounded annual rate of growth. In Better and Better, Stiller explains how he did it, from donating five percent pretax net income to environmental and social causes, with employees collectively deciding how donations would be used; to paying employees to volunteer in their own communities; to providing much-needed loans to small farms.--
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