Morning Star is a major industrial producer of tomato based products in the U.S.A. employing 100s of staff including truck drivers, machine operators and engineers.
“We are organizationally structured through a system we term Mission Focused Self-Management. Our company is operated by colleagues without titles or an appointed hierarchy of authority. Leadership is dynamic and situational and is taken based on competency and integrity. Each Colleague has a personal commercial mission, “which is the manager.” They must think on their feet and solve problems quickly.”
Careers at Morning Star
“Employees (“colleagues” in Morning Star argot) are ridiculously empowered yet work together like members of a carefully choreographed dance troupe.”
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Testimonials from colleagues at Morning Star
“I love working here”
Careers at Morning Star
“You have the freedom to move laterally”
“Here, it’s like you are your own boss”
“You get to create your own destiny”
“The freedom to do your job the way you want to do it”
“As if this was your own business”
“You know the job where you dread travelling to work because of the people you have to work with? Don’t have that here…”
“We all really care about one another”
“Learn different things with your colleagues”
“There is no separation between what you value in your private life and what you value at work”
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