Off–Centered Leadership: The Dogfish Head Guide to Motivation, Collaboration and Smart Growth

Stop competing and start collaborating!

"This is a must read, not just for beer lovers, but for anyone who values a distinctly and wonderfully off–centered approach to life and work.
Sam Calagione is an innovative brewer, a visionary leader, a fun collaborator, and a great friend. Sam′s new book, Off–centered Leadership, brilliantly offers keen insights on how to build a business with soul, and how to lead and motivate people in a fast–paced environment. Sam and I have followed similar paths in building our beer companies, and we have faced many of the same challenges. His steadfast commitment to quality and innovation, and his quirky, off–centered management style, make his new book both entertaining and enlightening."
JIM KOCH, co–founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company

"If you′ve started your business out of passion and skill, but know in your heart that you can′t do it alone, read here how Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head faced down that important challenge and transformed himself into a leader of a team that leads the company′s growth and excellence while preserving his original passions."
BOB TAYLOR, cofounder and President of Taylor Guitars

"This epic, essential and pioneering guide to thoughtfully growing your business and life takes us on an incredible journey of discovery. It is brimming with trailblazing innovation, collaboration, entrepreneurship, creativity, passion, risk, disruption and the inevitable transition to a better future And it′s all built around beer What could be better?"
BILL WALTON, a proud and loyal Dogfish fan, student, and consumer

Off–centered Leadership offers any leader of a newly formed company or an established organization a new vision of leadership. Sam Calagione the founder and owner of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery shows how to embrace the spirit of collaboration over competition and harness its power as a business strategy. This hands–on resource reveals how one of the nation′s fastest growing independent breweries spear–headed a collaborative model that better serves its customer and its coworkers, provides innovative solutions to common business challenges, and continues to rocket Dogfish Head to the top of the independent brewing industry.

Filled with illustrative examples and written in Calagione′s fresh and engaging style, Off–centered Leadership offers a key to ongoing organizational success.

Sam Calagione is the founder and president of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, one of the nation′s fastest growing independent breweries, Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and the Dogfish Inn in Lewes, Delaware. He has been named Businessman of the Year by the Small Business Administration, named one of Fast Company′s 100 Most Creative People in Business, and The Wall Street Journal calls Sam "a Pioneer of bizarre brews."