At Work with The Ready · 2026-06-22 · 9 min
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. - Ready to change your organization? Let's talk! Get our newsletter: Sign up here.
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