Employee Ownership & Shared Entrepreneurship Resources

• Gore, Genevieve "Vieve," 112
• Gore, Wilbert L. "Bill," 111-13
• "Gore-Tex," 112
• W. L. Gore & Associates, 112-15

• W.L. Gore allowance for discretionary time, 90-91, 94; combination of freedom and accountability, 137; company background, 84-85; company structure, 93-94; difficulty in quantifying benefits of management innovation, 98-99; Gore’s motivation and goal for the company, 85-86; lattice-based company structure, 87-88; leadership system, 88-89; management innovation’s impact on power, 96-97; new product-to-market process, 94-96; performance reviews and compensation, 92-93; voluntary commitments system, 91-92; willingness to be bold, 99

• Gore, Bill, 194, 195, 200
• W.L. Gore & Associates, 126, 190, 193-205

• Having Fun the Bill Gore Way, 96-98

• W. L. Gore, 9, 128, 134, 148-151, 164-165

• W.L. Gore, 26, 183, 236-237

• Self-Management Without Formal Teams: The Organization as Team, 131-150

• The Team at W.L. Gore & Associates, 177-187

• W.L. Gore & Associates, 7, 27, 108, 143, 170

• W.L. Gore & Associates: Developing Global Teams to Meet Twenty-First-Century Challenges, 267-284 (Chapter 14)

• W.L. Gore & Associates, 1

• Gore, Bill: CEO comparison, 209, 234; desire to change how people work, 4-6, 22; dialog with his leaders, 6, 158; example of nourishing leadership, 158-63; exasperation and admiration experiences, 84; and “formula for falure,” 10-11, 65, 158-59; influence of DuPong, 3-4, 5, 81, 83, 84, 157; as liberating leader, 71, 126, 157-58, 166; and on-time delivery performance, 65, 251; and PTFE, 3-4, 154; starts W.L. Gore & Associates, 4, 14; wire-stripping example, 9-11, 22; See also W.L. Gore & Associates
• Gore, Bob, 7, 14, 253
• Gore, Genevieve, 3, 4
• Gore-Tex, 3, 4, 14, 251
• W.L Gore & Associate: accidental discovery of Gore-Tex, 14; background, 4-14; comparison among companies, 22, 268; cultural continuity issue, 252-53; four principles, 9; as liberated company, 37, 52-52, 262, 264; number of employees, 270; Skunk-Works-type projects, 37, 157; as start-up, 4-5, 268; statistics, 13; See also Gore, Bill
• Workplace freedom: Chardonnay barrel story, 63-64; and company’s strategic vision, 65-66; as one of four principles at W.L. Gore & Associates, 8-9; as ordered liberty, 61; as ownership of company vision, 66-71; what it means, 61; why it works, 272, 273, 274

• W. L. Gore Company, 38, 105, 112

• W.L Gore & Associates, 116-120

• W.L. Gore Associates, 45, 60-1