Moral leadership realizes where it's strength and success began.

As Chobani, the Greek-yogurt maker, grows astronomically, so does its workforce. Today, the company has 1,630 employees; in 2008, it had just 50. Here's how.

Christian Murray (click here) loads Chobani yogurt containers into a sleeving machine to be shrink wrapped at a Chobani manufacturing facility in New York.

Have hiring problems? Who doesn't?

Take a cue from those who have done it--a lot: Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya and his head of HR, Craig Gomez, who together have led Chobani to No. 7 on the inaugural Hire Power list of America's biggest job creators. 

Here's what they've learned along the way....

April 26, 2016
By Stephanie Strom

New Berlin, N.Y. — The 2,000 full-time employees (click here) of the yogurt company Chobani were handed quite the surprise on Tuesday: an ownership stake that could make some of them millionaires.

Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkish immigrant who founded Chobani in 2005, told workers at the company’s plant here in upstate New York that he would be giving them shares worth up to 10 percent of the company when it goes public or is sold.

The goal, he said, is to pass along the wealth they have helped build in the decade since the company started. Chobani is now widely considered to be worth several billion dollars.

“I’ve built something I never thought would be such a success, but I cannot think of Chobani being built without all these people,” Mr. Ulukaya said in an interview in his Manhattan office that was granted on the condition that no details of the program would be disclosed before the announcement.
“Now they’ll be working to build the company even more and building their future at the same time,” he said....