Small Giants
by Bo Burlingham
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Burlingham profiles 14 of the best purpose-driven companies--Anchor Brewing, CitiStorage, Clif Bar Inc., Righteous Babe Records, Reel Precision Manufacturing, and Zingerman's Community of Businesses--showing their consistent profitability and insistence at staying small and great instead of large and mediocre.

 

I work for a great company that was like the brewery - best in its business. It went public and later got bought. I still work for the new company, but the family feeling and devotion is gone. I am interested in finding out about the other great companies that decided to stay great and independent in this crazy market.