Create Amazing

““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 manual for combining good politics and economic policy to reduce economic disparity and improve the financial well-being of our nation.” —Jerry Moran, US Senator, Kansas “How should we solve economic inequality? Greg Graves, former CEO of one of the most important employee-owned corporations in the United States suggests we encourage the employees to buy the most successful firms in the country using credit and tax incentives using the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan).” —Joseph Blasi, director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University “Greg Graves is not a theoretician sitting in an ivory tower, but a leader who built an incredibly successful company based on a model of shared capitalism: an ESOP. Create Amazing tells you how to bring this competitive advantage to your own company.” —Stephen Smith, CEO, Amsted Industries “Greg Graves’s new book is a must-read for any business leader thinking about how to transition the company into an ownership structure that will build productivity, loyalty, profits, and employee financial security … I cannot recommend this book highly enough.” —Stephanie Silverman, CEO, S-Corporations of America “Through this book, Greg Graves offers a comprehensive blueprint for how to improve businesses through employee ownership. His practical ideas and civic-minded approach will redesign the workplace and reinvigorate the American economy.” —Stuart R. Bell, president, The University of Alabama “Greg Graves’s dynamic leadership of a highly successful large multinational employee-owned company provides him with a unique perspective of wealth building in America.” —Doug Girod, chancellor, University of Kansas”

Greg Graves is newly retired as Chair/CEO of Burns McDonnell Engineering. He has been chairman of the board for the University of Kansas Hospital Authority and the Kansas City Repertory Theatre. He also serves as the Lead Independent Director and chairs the nominating committee on the board of UMB Financial Corporation.

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