Uncommon Sense Management: Why 70% of Americans Hate Their Jobs and How to Fix It

** ＂A refreshing change of pace for a management book.＂** ＂Revolutionary in its simplicity.＂** ＂. . . a game plan of management and action that is nothing less than inspirational.＂Are you too busy to do your job? Do you fight with other departments to try to get them to help you? Does there seem to be a lack of commonality of purpose in your business? Does it seem like if only a little common sense were applied that you could do better and your company could do better? When businesses try to fix problems, they often focus on the wrong thing. Like a drunk negotiating a long hallway, the business will bounce from side to side off the hallway walls, stumbling and tripping along in ignorant bliss in an effort to right the wrongs. 70% of Americans hate their jobs (Gallup poll, June 2013). Uncommon Sense Management explains why and how to fix it.The book shows you how to find the root causes that create inefficiency, ineffectiveness, and low profits and how to fix them. It provides practical techniques that will allow you to get out of the ＂I’m too busy to do my job＂ syndrome that many business people find themselves in. Virtually all business ills can be traced back to ineffective communication of some type. If you can identify and fix the communication breakdowns, you can fix your business ills. However, ineffective communication takes many, many different forms that can appear to the untrained eye as something other than a communication issue.In an entertaining style unusual for a management book, Dan Purkey provides the keys to identify and fix the true root causes of business problems so that you can sustainably inject more efficiency, more effectiveness, and better profitability into your business. He provides the foundations to transform businesses into great places to work and profit machines, as well as to improve your personal work life.Uncommon Sense Management - when common sense just isn’t enough.

At my core, I’m a teacher. While I might not have known it at the time, I can go all the way back to elementary school to find the beginnings of that. I’ve always enjoyed passing on my knowledge to others and seeing them grow from it. I’ve also always enjoyed having knowledge shared with me and growing from it. This book is the culmination of that experience. Over the years, I actually got my teaching degree and taught high school math. I taught a business the most efficient way of doing an oil change in ten minutes, once I learned from them how to do an oil change in the first place. I taught customers about finding the best benefits and solutions to meet their telecommunications needs. I taught utilities commissioners, attorneys, and Fortune 100 companies the fairest way to implement processes that had never existed before. I was enlightened to the foundational power of Effective Communication in my MBA education and how to theoretically move organizations to achieve goals. That then turned into practical reality as a VP of Operations, consultant, and business owner to help companies reach goals not thought possible before. I authored a novel (＂Trackers＂), a short story (＂The Legend of the Groundhog Day Hearing＂), and many editorials, speeches, and testimony in various venues. Now, as a teacher and author of ＂Uncommon Sense Management,＂ I’m hopefully teaching you how to get control of your work life and create a better reality for everyone. The potential for real, sustainable change is exciting for me and I hope it is for you, too. Terrie, my wife of 30+ years, is a talented interior designer and artist. We have two sons, Adam and Eric, who reside in Seattle, and of whom we’re very proud. For recreation, I ride a bicycle, brew beer, and play Disc (please don’t call it Frisbee) Golf, basketball, and chess-all with varying degrees of success. I’m the President and founder of The Open Door Group, a management consulting firm. If you need help improving your business and/or want to effectively implement the practical techniques in this book, you can connect with me via our website at www.TheOpenDoorGroup.com.