Buried Alive!: Digging Out of a Managment Dumpster

By Anna Versteeg, Shane Yount, John Pyecha

Book Overview

Whether you run a worldwide company with offices on every continent, or a department or small business with less than ten employees, the process explained in this book will enable you to put yourself in full control. There can be no doubt about it, leaders of businesses and organizations today are expected to do more with less with the result that whole layers of management have been eliminated. Those who remain have no choice but to take up the slack, and many feel "buried alive." This book can change that. It explains a process any manager can put in place to spread out the workload and bring about a new sense of focus, urgency and accountability among the staff. It's a process that's already in place and working like clockwork in a number of Fortune 500 companies as well as the Department of Defense, several big city governments, and some of the largest airports in the world. What this book provides is a system comprised of a few simple rules involving scorecards, action registers, and interlocking teams that will get a business moving forward at light speed. A primary reason is that everyone quickly knows what he or she must do to succeed personally, as well as what needs to be done for the organization to reach its goals and succeed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512330671
• ISBN13: 9781512330670
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Look beyond the story.

I just ordered more copies for our front line supervisors. I loved the ideas taught in the book. However, the story format does not appeal to everyone. I recommend that even if you don't like the story format, that you pick this up. It is a quick read and it can change the way you look at your whole operation.

Fun, interesting to read

This was the most fun book to read regarding on how to be a good manager! It has a no nonsense look on how to improve your organizational skills. I highly recommend this book to read.

So Simple- so perfect, why isn't everyone doing this?

I was blown away. This easy-to-read book is a salvation and a demonstration that complicated problems sometimes only require simple answers. The concepts that are described reaffirm your intuition and gently challenge your comfort zone as a manager. I think that if you're willing to be open to change, the changes that are laid out within Buried Alive! are impactful and will achieve nearly immediate results. Outstanding concepts, simple to understand, easy to implement. I'm very impressed and will recommend the book to anyone who wants to improve their organization from top down or bottom up.