Corporate Canaries Avoid Business Disasters With a Coal Miner's Secrets

Managers are nervous. They should be. Fortune 500 companies fired more employees than they hired in the last two decades. Bankruptcies and fraud abound. In today's tumultuous business environment, managers want guidance in the form of a timely theme, a unique and memorable metaphor, and outside-the-box thinking. That's precisely what Corporate Canaries delivers. A century ago coal miners hung canary cages in their tunnels. The little birds went silent and dropped when poisonous gas seeped into the mine, offering workers a warning of the lurking dangers.In the same way that canaries protected miners, the principles in Corporate Canaries will protect companies by alerting executives and managers when their businesses are headed for real trouble. The book features five core chapters revealing five common business hazards, and each lesson is accompanied by a story based on the author's grandfather's work in the coal industry, as well as an applicable "canary warning" for each theme.Sutton, Gary is the author of 'Corporate Canaries Avoid Business Disasters With a Coal Miner's Secrets', published 2005 under ISBN 9780785212997 and ISBN 078521299X.