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Empower your work force and great things will begin to happen, says Bernard Hinden. Started 54 years ago as a single department in Union City’s Sloan’s-Home Fair store, Hinden’s Marburn Curtain Warehouse has grown to become a chain of 23 home furnishings outlets in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. But rather than take all the credit, the founder and chief executive of Marburn prefers to share the limelight with the other owners of the company–all 250 of them. Marburn, based in Cliffside Park, adopted an employee stock ownership plan 15 years ago, transforming employees into employee-owners and heightening productivity. “I’m not just looked at as the boss”, Hinden says....