New Edition of The SAIC Solution

One of the most inspiring and thought-provoking stories in employee ownership that of SAIC, one of the largest and most innovative employee-owned companies in the United States, and the Foundation for Enterprise Development has just released the second edition of the definitive book on SAIC, written by its founder, Robert Beyster. The new edition has new chapters on succession planning and governance, as well as reflections on events at SAIC since the first edition was published in 2007.

The new edition provides inspiration for those building or considering employee ownership, as well as the principles and concrete steps the company took to achieve its remarkable culture of decentralized entrepreneurialism. The new edition also, however, contains a warning. In his note to the second edition (PDF), Beyster writes that he added the chapter on governance to explore his belief that the company's "abandonment of the employee-ownership culture that we worked so hard to build over the years has had a terribly negative impact on the company, its people, and its bottom-line performance."

The book is available in bookstores and at www.saicbook.com, which also includes a video trailer.