Act Like an Owner

Five Unlocks for Creating Culture People Love and Results Leaders Need

By: Greg Hawks

Narrated by: Greg Hawks

Markets shift. Competitors adapt. What determines your future are the mindsets shaping your culture.

In Act Like an Owner, Greg Hawks introduces a vivid metaphor that reframes how people show up at work: Owners, Renters, and Vandals. Owners bring their heart, head, and hands. Renters show up with only their hands. Vandals bring division and strife. These mindsets are not fixed, but they shape whether a workplace thrives or collapses.

The heart of the book is the Five Unlocks of an Owner’s Mindset. These practices fuel commitment, deepen engagement, and unleash innovation:

• Risk Bold Commitments

• Activate Lasting Change

• Reach for Responsibility

• Widen the Circle

• Think Whole House

Together, the Unlocks form a blueprint for building an Ownership Culture. A workplace where people contribute their best daily, leaders nurture trust and growth, and teams advance a mission that matters.

What sets Act Like an Owner apart is its practicality. Each chapter blends compelling stories, humor, and research with reflection questions that invite listeners to apply the concepts immediately. Leaders and teams will not only understand the Owner–Renter–Vandal metaphor but also walk away with a process to diagnose current cultural realities and shift them toward lasting engagement.

This book connects directly to today’s most pressing business needs: employee engagement, leadership development, organizational culture, performance, and talent retention. The result is stronger trust, greater accountability, and cultures that attract top talent while delivering measurable growth.

This is more than strategies. It is a framework for transforming disengagement into buy-in, compliance into contribution, and fractured workplaces into thriving ecosystems of ownership.

Act Like an Owner delivers Five Unlocks for Creating Culture People Love and Results Leaders Need.

©2026 Hawks Media (P)2026 Hawks Media

I have known Greg for about 18 years and I can honestly say that he lives out Act Like An Owner in everything that he does..

I love how Greg speaks practically about having an Ownership mentality in every aspect of our lives. Weather it is in the workplace, home, coach, mentor, mentee, "progress partner," church leadership or on a personal level. He speaks with authority, kindness and love.
I have known Greg for about 18 years and I can honestly say that he lives out Act Like An Owner in everything that he does..
Easy read! He kept me so engaged that I finished this book in one day. Loved all of the stories.
I Highly recommend this book.