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301 More Ways to Have Fun at Work
FANTASTIC!
Reviewer: frickta from New York, NY-United States
Can't understand what the others are bellyaching about-I found this to be a quick entertaining read that was full of great ideas and suggestions. Unlike the multitude of other books about fostering fun and creativity in the workplace that try to pretend that they are speaking of a finely-tuned science with complex procedures-this book says it like it is-it's just fun!
If you need an in-depth how-to book to have fun at work, trust me, this is the least of your problems.
I took the suggestions for the obstacle course race and we had a fantastic time in my office-everyone came out of their shells (cubicles rather) and joined in the fun...there were people there that I didn't even know had a sense of humor...
If you are looking for some long-winded analytical study of the concept of fun at work for the sake of fostering productivity and morale go elsewhere-this is just simple fun, fun to read, fun ideas, and fun to practice...
NICE!
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Care Packages for the Workplace: Dozens of Little Things You Can Do To Regenerate Spirit At Work
Morale is down--spirits are low--the workload is mounting. Today's hard-working employees need a break! And nothing feels better than Care Packages for the Workplace from internationally known, lift-your-spirits author Barbara Glanz. This timely gift-book format provides the hard at work with dozens of simple brighten-your-day ideas such as: beautifying the work space in order to do what Tom Peters recommends-- Fight Bland Dullness! ; putting a personal signature on all work; sharing a joke-a-day, one month at a time; holding grapevine meetings where rumors are openly discussed; partaking in good news hours where positive news is shared; creating special awards for a job well done; scheduling lunches with management.
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Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Dis
Reviewer: A reader from Los Angeles, California
...if you're serious about personal and professional growth. In his typically no-holds-barred style, Tom Peters scores with 50 (plus) strategies for breaking the shackles of faceless employee-dom and turning you into a rock 'em, sock 'em mini-firm --complete with personal brand and a passion for constant renewal.
...if you feel discouraged in today's business culture. With down-to-earth, I can do that tactical suggestions, Peters relentlessy lifts your hopes and revives the dreams long suppressed by corporate. Like his live lectures, you'll feel like you just attended a revival meeting.
...if you're looking for more than your job offers. The 50 strategies get your juices flowing, help you diagnose your current position, and plan for the future. The chapters may be bite-sized, but they provide more than enough food for thought and reflection. Read it with savor.
...because it can change your life! This book played a key role helping me decide to quit my job and reach for what I really want to do. Read at your own risk!
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Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Fish! is a great book that teaches you how to have fun at work and make your job into something you enjoy coming to each day. It tells the story of a woman who goes through a transformation to learn this very thing from an unlikely source: the fish mongers at a Seattle fish market. A cute story and helpful book that has been used effectively in my company.
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Getting Past No : Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation
The greatest book on negotiation, conflicts and life
Reviewer: Marque Pierre Søndergaard from Copenhagen, Denmark
This book should be a must-read for anybody interested or involved not only in negotiation, but also in business, conflicts, diplomacy and interactions between people.
It is several years ago I read the book the first time, but still every week, if not very day, I find use for its principles.
This book along with Frank Bettger's classic on selling have proved to be the most important all-purpose books to my life and career.
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Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers
I love this book. It's simple, it's clear and its powerful. Like a japanese haiku. Not a wasted word. It's clear that the author is talking from her real world experience and not the jive zone of wannabee consultants. It's rare to find a business book devoid of gobbledygook. This book is that rare book. I really enjoyed the various ways in which the author actually coaches the reader through real time challenges in the workplace
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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind : How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
A fabulous book for getting your thinking straight.
The author is the ultimate teacher, presenting his material in several forms and different ways till you "get it". He filled a gap in my thinking about how we do things, showing me the third leg of the conscious, the cerebellum and now the unconscious in mediating our actions. He showed me how to use my mind to much greater advantage and he cleared up some of my thinking about Joseph Campbell's myths and psychoanalysis.
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Leading the Revolution
So much for the old economy, new economy divide. According to Gary Hamel, the professor-turned-strategy-guru author of Leading the Revolution, complacent establishment giants and one-strategy start-ups are on the same side of the fence--the wrong side. Corporate complacency and single-strategy business plans leave no room for what Hamel describes as the key to thriving in today's world of business: a deeply embedded capability for continual, radical innovation.
Leading the Revolution is not a calm analysis of what will or won't work in a post-industrial world. Instead, it's an impassioned call for revolutionary activists to shake the foundations of their companies' beliefs and move from a linear age of getting better, smarter, and faster, to a nonlinear age of becoming different. While in the past incremental improvements in products and services were accepted as good enough, Hamel shows that true innovation is the demolition and re-creation of an entire business concept. He blows apart the popular myth that innovation lies solely in the hands of dot.com dynamos like AOL and Amazon by scrutinizing the examples of such gray-haired revolutionaries as Enron and Charles Schwab, companies that have managed to reinvent both themselves and their entire industries, time and again.
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Take these lessons beyond the work place
Excellent read, Clifton gives clarity and tools for success. I enjoyed the online inner strength tests very much and found it fascinating. While Clifton gives us the the key to unlocking our abilities and the confidence to pursue the path, it is up to us to take the journey.
I have taken this book and its philosophies into my personal life as well, filling everyday.
Everyone has different things that can free them further.
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Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done: Every Employee's
Pro-active thinking!
Reviewer: Todd Newman from Valparaiso, IN
Bob Nelson has assembled a quick reading book on popular business concepts and situations facing a regular employee. He offers suggestions on becoming more pro-active than re-active to situations that arise through out many different careers. Nelson also gives examples of true story scenarios in which a person took a chance or challenged an idea and was later promoted for it. He talks about successes and also failures in careers in which people either sat on the sidelines or got in the game. This book most can probably read in a day as it is under 100 pages and reads very fast. It has quick chapters and a lot of useful insight.
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