The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Encouraging Open Communication to Bridge Thorny Conflicts

How do you build a company that people will love working for?That’s one of the questions chef and entrepreneur Erin Wade tackles in The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box. Sharing her follow-your-passion journey from corporate law to operating Homeroom, a mac and cheese restaurant, Wade offers practical and entertaining anecdotes on creating a vital company culture with meaning, purpose, and connection. Each chapter is devoted to a specific value, giving a clear roadmap for aligning work and values.

"In my life, I had not experienced the kind of leadership at work that I wanted to emulate, so I had to ask myself what my values were and try to build my company around them," Wade stated. "I had experienced very masculine work environments based on competition and individual success- which didn’t speak to me. So I spent over a decade figuring out how to build something different–a company based on collaboration and group success–…