Paul Kennedy: When ownership stays local, so does everything else

Paul Kennedy: When ownership stays local, so does everything else

Imagine you work for a small Midwestern company that has been bought and sold seven times in 10 years. Each time, decisions about your company's future — your future — were made by someone farther away from you than before. Someone who had never met you or your coworkers. Someone who had never visited your community and might not even know where to find it on a map. That's what DSG employees had experienced, and by 1991, a group of 34 were ready…