Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work

by Leslie Yerkes, James M. Kouzes (Foreword by)

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.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Management

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful and light-hearted book about adding fun into your work day. Great examples -- daily dance with the construction workers -- and a can-do spirit!

[Pleasureteam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great ideas from the world of business. Many can easily be translated to the classroom. Great quotes...some funny, some inspiring, all keepers.