Fun Works
Creating Places Where People Love to Work
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2007
257 pages
978-1-57675-518-1 (ISBN)
Description
Yerkes offers tips, examples, and motivation to help readers, their coworkers, and their customers unleash the power of fun in the workplace. Through real-life case studies and interviews with dozens of leading authors and everyday people, the author illustrates 11 principles of what she calls ",The Work/Fun Fusion",.
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Leslie Yerkes
Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part One: Creating the Fun/Work Fusion
- THE INTRODUCTION: THE CASE FOR INTEGRATING FUN AND WORK
- Part Two: The Fun/Work Fusion Principles
- PRINCIPLE ONE: GIVE PERMISSION TO PERFORM
- Featuring: Pike Place Fish
- Update 2006
- Doing vs Being Key
- PRINCIPLE TWO: CHALLENGE YOUR BIAS
- Featuring: Harvard University Dining Services
- Update 2006
- Forgiveness Key
- PRINCIPLE THREE: CAPITALIZE ON THE SPONTANEOUS
- Featuring: Southwest Airlines
- Update 2006
- Effectiveness Key
- PRINCIPLE FOUR: TRUST THE PROCESS
- Featuring: Employease
- Update 2006
- Trust Key
- PRINCIPLE FIVE: VALUE A DIVERSITY OF FUN STYLES
- Featuring: Blackboard, Inc.
- Update 2006
- Challenge Your Thinking Key
- PRINCIPLE SIX: EXPAND THE BOUNDARIES
- Featuring: Process Creative Studios, Inc.
- Update 2006
- Time for Renewal Key
- PRINCIPLE SEVEN: BE AUTHENTIC
- Featuring: Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc.
- Update 2006
- Balance Key
- PRINCIPLE EIGHT: BE CHOICEFUL
- Featuring: Russell-Rogat acquired by Lee Hecht Harrison
- Update 2006
- Questions Key
- PRINCIPLE NINE: HIRE GOOD PEOPLE AND GET OUT OF THE WAY
- Featuring: One Prudential Exchange
- Update 2006
- Metaphors Key
- PRINCIPLE TEN: EMBRACE EXPANSIVE THINKING AND RISK TAKING
- Featuring: Will Vinton Studios
- Update 2006
- Journey vs Destination Key
- PRINCIPLE ELEVEN: CELEBRATE
- Featuring: American Skandia
- Update 2006
- Heart Key
- Part Three: Activating the Fun/Work Fusion
- THE CONCLUSION: OPENING OUR MINDS AND LETTING FUN HAPPEN
- Update
- Part Four: Putting Fun to the Test
- THE FUN/WORK FUSION INVENTORY
- OTHER VOICES: STORIES OF FUN AT WORK
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- FUN/WORK FUSION RESOURCES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
