
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT FUN WORKS
- ALSO BY LESLIE YERKES
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- PART ONE: Creating the Fun/Work Fusion
- INTRODUCTION: The Case for Integrating Fun and Work
- PART TWO: The Fun/Work Fusion Principles
- PRINCIPLE ONE: Give Permission to Perform
- PRINCIPLE TWO: Challenge Your Bias
- PRINCIPLE THREE: Capitalize on the Spontaneous
- PRINCIPLE SEVEN: Be Authentic
- PRINCIPLE EIGHT: Be Choiceful
- PRINCIPLE NINE: Hire Good People and Get Out of Their Way
- PRINCIPLE TEN: Embrace Expansive Thinking and Risk Taking
- PRINCIPLE ELEVEN: Celebrate
- PART THREE: Activating the Fun/Work Fusion
- CONCLUSION: Opening Our Minds and Letting Fun Happen
- PART FOUR: Putting Fun to the Test
- The Fun/Work Fusion Inventory
- PRINCIPLE FOUR: Trust the Process
- PRINCIPLE FIVE: Value a Diversity of Fun Styles
- PRINCIPLE SIX: Expand the Boundaries
- OTHER VOICES Stories of Fun at Work
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- FUN/WORK FUSION RESOURCES
- LESLIE A. YERKES
- ABOUT BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS
- BE CONNECTED