Off-Centered Leadership considers an innovative approach to business by exploring what happens when companies stop competing and start collaborating. Brimming with lessons on entrepreneurship and culture from the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, members of his leadership team, and external mentors from the worlds of business and art, this game-changing text turns competition on its head by showcasing how competing organizations can work together-and with other local businesses-to reach a common goal. The text dives into how Dogfish Head has blazed a new trail through the development of a revolutionary business model that has called upon musicians, community organizations, and even other breweries to keep product development fresh and create engaging customer experiences.
This book documents and addresses the growing pains a company experiences as it evolves from the awkward early startup years into a mid-sized sustainable company with hundreds of coworkers. Calagione is candid in sharing his personal leadership challenges and success and calls on other seasoned vets inside and outside the company who inform and influence the journey of growth and creative expression Dogfish Head is on. This book is rich with practical information entrepreneurs and businesspeople can apply to their own professional journeys.
This is the exhilarating success story of a man who really likes beerso much so that he decided to make a business of it. Starting with nothing but a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality and built the country's fastest growing breweryDogfish Head Craft Brewery. Brewing Up a Business is the enlightening and entertaining story of Dogfish and Calagione, of the power of unconventional thinking, and of the hard lessons every entrepreneur learns along the way. In this updated second edition, Calagione offers a deeper real-world look at entrepreneurship and what it takes to run a booming business. In several new chapters, he discusses Dogfishs most innovative marketing strategies. In particular, he explains how social media has become an integral part of his business model and offers advice on how small businesses can use it to level the playing field with larger competitors. Calagione also presents his passionate, compelling argument for choosing to keep his business relatively small and artisanal, despite market demands for Dogfish to grow faster.
