Bailing Out the Company Canoe: Become a Better Boss is a non-fiction business book which takes the reader from the earliest days of the Founder's company, through the heady venture fund raising, code writing, a product launch period, through building its early adoption customer base, and then through the stall and demise of the company. Bailing was written from the perspectives of its employees across a wide range of business professions. It is a useful business book because the authors describe their experiences and how those experiences affected the workplace environment. The authors then make actionable management recommendations that can be immediately implemented the bosses to increase the productivity of the employees and the workplace