Back To The Cottage is the story of John Sipple’s odyssey from the ‘Cottage’ to the corporation, and how he has relied on the values and principles he has learned in the ‘Cottage’ business of his youth.
Afterword
John Sipple ends the Back To The Cottage series by reflecting on the personal experiences that accompanied him on his journey from the Cottage to the Corporation and back, pointing out the significant turning points that shaped his character.
Chapter 12
In this final chapter of Back To The Cottage, John focuses on the art of leadership: who are the leaders? What exactly do they do? How are they developed?
Chapter 11
In this chapter of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple describes how the Foley pulp mill organization demonstrated their resilience after Procter and Gamble’s unexpected sale of the mill.
Chapter 10
In this chapter, John tells 5 stories of how the principles dictated by the employees and leadership of the Foley pulp mill began to play out in reality.
Chapter 9
In this chapter of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple gathers his newly formed teams together to redesign and reimplement the foundational principles and organization of the entire Foley plant. Along the way they give Foley employees a stronger sense of ownership of their work, and change the leadership model from a “straw boss” style to a coaching model. They also rework the way skills are developed with the organization.
Chapter 8
Starting his new assignment reorganizing the run-down Foley pulp mill in Florida, John begins building his cross-organization leadership team.
Chapter 7
In Chapter 7, John Sipple begins his new task of leading the run-down Foley pulp mill out of the backwaters, drawing on key lessons from his years in the Cottage.
Chapter 6
After his time at the Charmin Paper Products plant in Germany, John Sipple’s leadership team at Proctor & Gamble offered him a less glamorous task: turning around a run-down pulp mill in the Florida swamplands.
Chapter 5
During his early career at the Charmin Paper Products company, John Sipple learns hard lessons on character, management, and mentorship.
Chapter 4
In chapter 4 of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple assesses the loss of the Cottage business with the growth of the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of modern management.
Chapter 3
In chapter 3 of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple lays out 7 foundational
principles of Cottage industry.
Chapter 2
“I spent a few more summers taking care of the vegetable business, but in reality the seed of a more radical change was sown. I was not just leaving behind an economic model of production and distribution, I was leaving a way of seeing and being in the world. It would be some time before I understood the loss, and began my journey back to the Cottage”
Chapter 1
Back to the Cottage is the story of John Sipple’s odyssey from the ‘Cottage’ to the corporation, and how he has relied on the values and principles he has learned in the ‘Cottage’ business of his youth.
Chapter 8
Back to the Cottage is the story of John Sipple’s odyssey from the ‘Cottage’ to the corporation, and how he has relied on the values and principles he has learned in the ‘Cottage’ business of his youth.
