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Business leader, speaker, and author John Abrams is dedicated to transforming business into a force for good. He co-founded South Mountain Company and served as its President for over four decades. In the late 1980s, he converted the company into a worker co-op and, in 2022, transitioned it to the next generation of leadership. Later that year, he founded Abrams+Angell with his late-in-life partner, Kim Angell, to help small businesses increase effectiveness and achieve social, environmental, and financial goals. He concentrates on guiding worker cooperative conversions. In June 2025, Abrams will release From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership, which introduces the concept of CommonWealth Comp ...more

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	Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place by John Abrams (Goodreads Author), William Greider (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place by John Abrams (Goodreads Author), William Grieder (Foreword) 4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Our economic system directs wealth to owners and shareholders while workers are generally limited to a wage. We could change that.”
― John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

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“Democracy in the workplace can nourish collaboration and cooperation in all walks of life.”
― John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

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“Employee ownership could reward owners and workers at once, dramatically affect wealth inequality, and sustain valuable businesses for generations to come.”
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“Business can be at the heart of the great civilizational shift that we need today.”
― John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

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“The benefits of the democratic workplace may aid and influence the essential repair of our battered and fractured civic landscape—it could change, in effect, the symmetry of our culture.”
― John Abrams, From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership

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