Fun Works
eBook - ePub

Fun Works

Creating Places Where People Love to Work

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fun Works

Creating Places Where People Love to Work

About this book

Leading-edge organizations have discovered that fun can--and does--translate into bottom line success. By harnessing the power of fun, companies find they can better retain employees and customers, motivate teams, improve productivity, increase innovation, and create a sense of community.Leslie Yerkes details precisely how eleven successful companies--including Southwest Airlines, Pike Place Fish, Isle of Capri Casinos, EmployEase, and Prudential--have integrated fun into the normal course of business. This new edition provides updates on how these same companies have grown, prospered, and continued to thrive--in spite of national tragedies, natural disaster, growing competition, and changing economic conditions--in part because of the culture they have created through what Yerkes calls "The Fun/Work Fusion."Yerkes illustrates eleven principles--from capitalizing on the spontaneous to hiring good people and getting out of their way--that will inspire you to inject a sense of playfulness and joy into your workplace. Full of real-life examples, strategies, ideas, resources, tools, tips, and techniques, Fun Works will help any company in any industry become a place where people love to work.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT FUN WORKS
  5. ALSO BY LESLIE YERKES
  6. FOREWORD
  7. PREFACE
  8. PART ONE: Creating the Fun/Work Fusion
  9. INTRODUCTION: The Case for Integrating Fun and Work
  10. PART TWO: The Fun/Work Fusion Principles
  11. PRINCIPLE ONE: Give Permission to Perform
  12. PRINCIPLE TWO: Challenge Your Bias
  13. PRINCIPLE THREE: Capitalize on the Spontaneous
  14. PRINCIPLE SEVEN: Be Authentic
  15. PRINCIPLE EIGHT: Be Choiceful
  16. PRINCIPLE NINE: Hire Good People and Get Out of Their Way
  17. PRINCIPLE TEN: Embrace Expansive Thinking and Risk Taking
  18. PRINCIPLE ELEVEN: Celebrate
  19. PART THREE: Activating the Fun/Work Fusion
  20. CONCLUSION: Opening Our Minds and Letting Fun Happen
  21. PART FOUR: Putting Fun to the Test
  22. The Fun/Work Fusion Inventory
  23. PRINCIPLE FOUR: Trust the Process
  24. PRINCIPLE FIVE: Value a Diversity of Fun Styles
  25. PRINCIPLE SIX: Expand the Boundaries
  26. OTHER VOICES Stories of Fun at Work
  27. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  28. INDEX
  29. FUN/WORK FUSION RESOURCES
  30. LESLIE A. YERKES
  31. ABOUT BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS
  32. BE CONNECTED