The Secret Ingredient of Business Success | Pete Stavros | TED

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  • čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
  • Too often, employees are unmotivated and unhappy, with no real incentive to invest much of anything into their place of work. Investment expert Pete Stavros thinks there's a better way, and he's on a mission to rethink corporate structures to expand who benefits from a thriving company. Sharing personal stories of his own journey along with the profound impact doing this work effectively can have, this moving talk provides a blueprint for changing the narrative - and outlook - for millions of workers worldwide.
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Komentáře • 89

  • @Powerball160
    @Powerball160 Před 13 dny +44

    I can see the bewilderment on some CEO's face as he hears the idea of sharing the wealth. Same bewilderment when he was a kid when told/asked to share his candy or toys.

  • @IMAXXHEW
    @IMAXXHEW Před 13 dny +28

    I work for a company that has ESOP. Along with many others (at my location) we've been there 20+ years because it is a great system. Many have retired as millionaires because of the stock they earned. I plan on retiring with the company and being happy.
    We are in the USA and started in Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon... since then we have opened several more locations in markets that demand our business. ESOP is a great business model where employees are happy, productive, and successful through retirement.

  • @bobbymcculloch9953
    @bobbymcculloch9953 Před 12 dny +7

    One of the main problems with inequality is reducing it without decreasing incentives to work. If you increase income tax for the rich, the incentive to become rich is less, so you become demotivated. Providing ownership to employees will redistribute the income and increase incentives to work with no trade offs. Could be pretty exiting stuff.

  • @omerangi4695
    @omerangi4695 Před 11 dny +3

    This is what TED is about. Spreading ideas like this.

  • @samizi9199
    @samizi9199 Před 13 dny +7

    It not only looks truly phenomenal but also a game changer movement in creation of wealth that impacts the lives of millions.

  • @jt3013
    @jt3013 Před 11 dny +3

    THIS! Been obsessed with this concept for years. I love entrepreneurship, and love the idea of worker ownership just as much!

    • @Alehzinhah
      @Alehzinhah Před 3 dny

      You know you're half step into communist ideology, right?

  • @tanoybhattacharjee8638
    @tanoybhattacharjee8638 Před 11 dny +2

    Its not just about sharing wealth, its about sharing ownership. Which means sharing of responsibilities as well as risk - when wealth is lost and not generated

  • @cherylpereeia1756
    @cherylpereeia1756 Před 12 dny

    Absolutely awesome! Well done Pete and I’m sure you feel Gods blessings. ❤❤❤

  • @Zeggskoll
    @Zeggskoll Před 13 dny +8

    This is probably one of the best TED talks I’ve listened to! My interest is definitely piqued!

  • @PanayiotisLaskaridis
    @PanayiotisLaskaridis Před 2 dny

    Μπράβο παλικάρι!!!! Greeks always leading the way

  • @yourvocalvitality8
    @yourvocalvitality8 Před 9 dny

    Wow! Uplifting voices, wealth growth & education and putting people first is so empowering! Here’s to more companies choosing this model. 💜

  • @josholunlade
    @josholunlade Před 10 dny +1

    This almost made me teary 🥺

  • @nipulpatel8329
    @nipulpatel8329 Před 12 dny

    Love this

  • @EcomCarl
    @EcomCarl Před 12 dny +2

    The focus on employee stock ownership is a powerful way to reshape workplace dynamics and tackle wealth inequality head-on. Creating an ownership culture not only fosters engagement but also strengthens the foundation of companies. Let's empower more workers to share in the success they help create! 🌟

  • @five-dollar-library
    @five-dollar-library Před 7 dny

    The mystery of business achievement lies in a blend of components working as one to advance development and maintainability. It starts with a reasonable vision and mission upheld by essential preparation and execution. Versatility, development, and a client driven approach are fundamental components to stay with an in front of the curve.Solid drive, strong correspondence, and convinced bunches are central for developing a positive workplace culture and achieving progressive targets.Ceaseless learning, information driven navigation, and an emphasis on quality and consumer loyalty are key components that add to long haul achievement. Eventually, outcome in business is the aftereffect of a coordinated and far reaching way to deal with activities and system.

  • @davea6314
    @davea6314 Před 6 dny +1

    The Mondragon Worker's Cooperative in Basque county has done far more than this and has been doing it since shortly after World War 2.

  • @JordanPayneLV
    @JordanPayneLV Před 12 dny +1

    This guy gets it!

  • @shuyanEnglishMaterialsSharing

    What a great entrepreneur!

  • @TheAmericanAmerican
    @TheAmericanAmerican Před 13 dny +2

    Finally! A GOOD TED Talk!😁

  • @niccolom
    @niccolom Před 12 dny +3

    Wait… if all employees had stock, why would the payout depend on seniority and not on the number of shares they own?
    Also, most of the things you said you did, didn’t have to be tied to employee stock ownership.
    11:00 is right. Letting the employees involve in decision making is the main point here. The success didn’t come from giving them shares of the company. The management didn’t need to be forced by shareholders to give the employees more power. They can voluntarily let the employees in the decision-making process, and skip the stock part.

    • @crankykransky2979
      @crankykransky2979 Před 12 dny

      There is a book you can find online that explains this and more eloquently you can find online, its called: "towards a new socialism" by Paul Cockshott.

    • @logancooper6062
      @logancooper6062 Před 3 hodinami

      Good point.
      Maybe the company allows employees to buy more stock with each additional year/month they work there? Mabye that’s why returns are higher for senior members, as they have more shares. Not sure but just a thought

  • @vipulanandsaro
    @vipulanandsaro Před 13 dny +3

    Respect 💯 ❤

  • @micro8106
    @micro8106 Před 12 dny

    Nice video for my future career, In my opinion I agree with improve the incentive for worker. This opportunity could help them to enhance the potential abilities, also increase of the attention in company to work more fascinating. But, I wonder nowadays, huge company such as Samsung or Lg they have a beneficial incentive environment for their worker but some of the worker still try to abort of that what is the main problem in this situation?

  • @AlfredoRoccia
    @AlfredoRoccia Před 12 dny +1

    AKA owning the means of production. Evergreen Marx ♥️

  • @mariaantoniettamontella9173

    fare squadra, sempre

  • @FarbotBurunetNia
    @FarbotBurunetNia Před 12 dny

    Great.
    Farbot Burun'Net Nia

  • @Sfazal85
    @Sfazal85 Před 10 dny

    I wonder whether the employees that he referred to went back to being non stockholders once the company was sold?

  • @pinkyknitter9667
    @pinkyknitter9667 Před 12 dny

    My mom got profit sharing from the small locally owned company she worked for. Is this still a thing? It sounds similar.

  • @dannyburleigh1
    @dannyburleigh1 Před 12 dny +2

    So let me get this straight!= "His real name is TED!!"

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta Před 13 dny +2

    I want this for all of us!

  • @jamieh9551
    @jamieh9551 Před 3 dny

    As a former employee of an ESOP, I found that the management simply appreciated the tax breaks while retaining all control, all authority, and responsibility. The stocks were not shared fairly across the employees and no one was empowered to raise ideas to better the company, the products and services, nor the employees. When I left I was working to start a union to support the employees. Sad that such a powerful tool can be used. While it looks yummy on the outside, ESOPs are as big a joke as a traditionally owned pyramid business. The stocks only gain value when value is put into the business.

  • @firststepeducare
    @firststepeducare Před 13 dny

    Ted talk is good

  • @crankykransky2979
    @crankykransky2979 Před 12 dny +11

    My man said "it might allow us to achieve an inclusive form of capitalism" after accidentally explaining socialism. I love it when liberals try to steal the ideas of us communists. We have been trying to do this for 150 years now, and people like our speaker here have opposed us for that entire period. The fact that liberals are now supporting our policy is telling of how fickle they really are.

    • @dallenpowell2745
      @dallenpowell2745 Před 9 dny

      Right?! This is called Social Democracy and it's been a priority of Labor Parties for decades. This just looks like Capitalism is evolving to stay relevant without committing fully to the idea of democratized labor. Regardless it's a good start and if it opens some people to the ideas of socialism then I'm all for it whatever they decide to call it.

  • @tristondoyle9286
    @tristondoyle9286 Před 13 dny +2

    Okay so question. I own a roofing company, I have to spend 10k a year on workers comp and general liability just to operate. I take home less than 50k a year. If we are sharing the wealth should the employees pay their part of workers comp&general liability if they are going to benefit?
    Yea I know it’s selfish but if I built this company from the ground up, paying more taxes, more liability on me and more stress. Why should someone else benefit for what I built?

    • @aaronhinspater6771
      @aaronhinspater6771 Před 12 dny +3

      This idea is for publicly traded companies. Ones that have stock.

    • @tristondoyle9286
      @tristondoyle9286 Před 12 dny

      @@aaronhinspater6771 I guess it makes sense there but he was also talking about construction companies too. Maybe I misunderstood

    • @mbergamin16
      @mbergamin16 Před 12 dny +2

      @@aaronhinspater6771 Many large companies and corporations come from such humble beginnings 🤷‍♂️
      Or do you simply mean once you deem them "too big" or "too profitable" for one person or family to reap the benefits of? 🤔

    • @mbergamin16
      @mbergamin16 Před 12 dny

      @@tristondoyle9286 Risk = Reward my friend, if you're taking all, or the majority of the risks, don't feel bad about receiving all, or the majority, of the rewards. 🫡

    • @rhaikh
      @rhaikh Před 12 dny +1

      Give all of your employees an equal share in the company via cooperative shared ownership, including distributing liability amongst them as shareholders, and then ask them to vote to decide who is the best representative to deal with administrative duties and how much that person should be compensated for their stress.

  • @jonahmayo2622
    @jonahmayo2622 Před 13 dny +1

    This is how you change the world

  • @CleverHybrids
    @CleverHybrids Před 6 dny

    🤔Could this idea work for nonprofits?

  • @ianfrasermobile
    @ianfrasermobile Před 12 dny +2

    Interestingly, most employees want to share in the profits, but no one is willing to share the losses. If you want to share the profit, then you also need to pay in when losses are made.

    • @poser250
      @poser250 Před 8 dny +3

      How about most of your waking life spent working at a job where you don’t see a fraction of the value you’ve created for the company? How’s that for losses?

  • @mcmaddox
    @mcmaddox Před 7 dny

    @10:30 - $340 MILLION of wealth infused into the local economy. Not from government handouts or printing money or excessive taxation--just by doing right by the average American worker. Imagine how much better this country could be if we dealt with the problem that's ACTUALLY holding us back: Corporate Greed.

  • @Illumignostic
    @Illumignostic Před 13 dny +2

    I thought we outlawed owning employees a long time ago?

  • @gregbors8364
    @gregbors8364 Před 10 dny

    An employee-owned company can still treat its workers like crap

    • @cjlmd27
      @cjlmd27 Před 9 dny

      Sure, but they are far less likely too. That's the point.

    • @roid1510
      @roid1510 Před 8 dny

      But the workers now have a say in that. Remember stock ownership also grants voting rights on strategic decisions

  • @andrewmuccillo
    @andrewmuccillo Před 8 dny +2

    CEOs ain't gonna like this

  • @ashishkatuwal
    @ashishkatuwal Před 13 dny +1

    First comment ❤

  • @SidneyChism
    @SidneyChism Před 12 dny

    Is that picture of your father in his road grader taking in the late '60s? How could he not build wealth with $20 an hour? $20 then had the buying power of $160 today.

  • @niccolom
    @niccolom Před 12 dny

    Canada’s WestJet failed with their employee ownership program.
    They now owned by someone else.

  • @caasinotwen2799
    @caasinotwen2799 Před 13 dny +1

    Be like Huawei

  • @Janizzary
    @Janizzary Před 12 dny +1

    For any Economics experts out there -- Is this a form of Marxism? Is it Communism? If not, what's the difference?

    • @unholyrevenger72
      @unholyrevenger72 Před 12 dny +1

      It is Syndicalism in that Money, government and Class still exist but most people adhere's to the "common ownership of the means of production". After Syndicalism comes Anarcho-Syndicalism which abolishes government. Then once you get rid of Money and class, you are left with Communism.

    • @crankykransky2979
      @crankykransky2979 Před 12 dny +1

      Its syndicalism or left communism depending on if he wants a revolution or not.

    • @bookponderings
      @bookponderings Před 12 dny

      Marxism and communism believe that there should be no private property. The opposite of that is when ownership is distributed widely, which is what this video suggests.

  • @Moyjed
    @Moyjed Před 13 dny

    First comment

  • @simplysmmn
    @simplysmmn Před 13 dny

    FIRST

  • @loukaligaris
    @loukaligaris Před 13 dny

    oh capitalism is learning the value of generosity

    • @off7970
      @off7970 Před 12 dny

      more human-faced capitalism? just as those models usually brought up by behavioral economists?

  • @MikeRLloyd73
    @MikeRLloyd73 Před 8 dny +1

    That's Communism/Socialism!...some right winger

    • @TrentH
      @TrentH Před 5 dny

      Not even close to either, but keep it up, I know you’re trying!

    • @icarusthefly5458
      @icarusthefly5458 Před dnem

      It is a communist/socialist idea but implemented in a capitalist society.
      The more i think about centralizing people in our society, the more communist/socialist i become though i know that communism doesnt work.
      I think we do need to reevaluate the position of people in our society and how companies can help people.
      The lower the needs of the maslov piramid, the higher the subsidies and higher government constraints.

  • @ayyawar
    @ayyawar Před 12 dny +1

    Bro is talking about Communism.

    • @bookponderings
      @bookponderings Před 12 dny +3

      Marxism and communism believe that there should be no private property. The opposite of that is when ownership is distributed widely, which is what this video suggests.

    • @chriswilfrid
      @chriswilfrid Před 11 dny

      ​@@bookponderings nah still communism wait when AI Robotics make this obsolete

    • @amaricoleman215
      @amaricoleman215 Před dnem

      Just because it’s not your ideal capitalist system doesn’t mean it’s communism

  • @user-ew8xj5pg7y
    @user-ew8xj5pg7y Před 13 dny +1

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