Fun is Good: How to Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career (Your Coach in a Box) Review
When I was 10 years, I wrote Bill Veeck--the innovative baseball
promoter--a letter . . . he responded, and that began a period
of occasional letters that ended when he died several years
later . . . his creativity inspired me then--and still does to this day.
I still chuckle at some of the things that Veeck did to enliven
the game . . . he introduced exploding scoreboards, popularized
postgame fireworks and provided nurseries at the ballpark for
children . . . in addition, he staged special nights for every
group imaginable and was the first to popularize ballpark
giveways.
His son, Mike Veeck, has carried on his legacy with a series
of equally unique promotions that he writes about with co-author
Pete Williams in FUN IS GOOD . . . but you don't have to be a baseball fan to love this
book, in that the ideas contained can be applied to any
profession . . . or as the subtitle points out, you'll learn
HOW TO CREATE JOY & PASSION IN YOUR
WORKPLACE & CAREER.
Many times, authors promise outrageous things in their
titles and/or subtitles . . . this is not the case here;
Veeck and Williams actually show you how this can be
done in a step-by-step approach that's both easy to
follow and apply.
I kept jotting notes down as I read FUN IS GOOD, which is
always a good sign . . . it means that I plan to go back to use
much of it . . . the only negative to this practice is that it makes
it difficult to choose just a few ideas to share in this brief
review, in that there were so many . . . yet that said, these
tidbits did stand out:
* If you're someone still trying to find your way, let your passions
serve as your guide. Look for environments where people are having
fun. When I hire people, I seek out passionate folks with an array
of interests, no matter how eclectic. If I need an accountant, for
instance, I don't look for just someone with the proper credentials.
I go in search of an experienced accountant with other interests,
someone I know might not only be fun to be around by perhaps
have non accounting skills that might be valuable. Perhaps this
person is a fly-fisherman or guitar player. That kind of focus
and creativity manifests itself in the workplace
* Jim Lucas, who was the assistant general manager of our Charleston
RiverDogs team a few years ago, issued pins to 10 or 15 fans before
each game, with instructions to give them to employees who
provided great customer service. The 3 employees who collected
the most pins at the end of the season received cash prizes.
These pins cost us only about 60 cents apiece, but you would have
thought they were precious gemstones. Employees proudly
displayed them on hats and worked tirelessly to obtain them.
Since nobody knew who had the pins, everyone was treated
extraordinarily well by employees with upbeat attitude.
* You don't need a ballpark to try things like Mime-O-Vision. [Veeck
hired a bunch of mimes to reenact plays before instant replays
became popular.] Years ago, people would win shopping sprees
where they had 90 seconds to grab whatever they could. Pizzerias
would award a year's worth of pizza to the winner of a pie-eating
contest. My dad used to say that it's barely noteworthy to give
one bottle of beer to each of a thousand fans, but it's a big deal to give
a thousand bottles of beer to one lucky winner.
Looking for an idea holiday gift this upcoming season? You
certainly won't go wrong giving FUN IS GOOD to somebody
you care about . . . or want to inspire.
Fun is Good: How to Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career (Your Coach in a Box) Feature
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Fun is Good: How to Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career (Your Coach in a Box) Overview
A fun workplace creates a culture of creativity where people want to workand customers want to do business. Thats the simple philosophy of sports executive and seminar leader Mike Veeck, who has used this approach to turn six minor-league baseball teams into major multi-million-dollar businesses. Veecks three-word mottofun is goodholds the key to empowering our people, our workplaces and ourselves. He demonstrates how a sense of joy and humor can turn a company around or push a stalled career into overdrive. Drawing on his own experience and the success stories of clients and other people who have benefited from his philosophy,Veeck reveals how fun, creativity and passion can bring out the best in an organization or individual, and explains: Why customer service suffers when employees arent having fun at workand why that matters How a few people with the Fun is Good attitude can transform a workplace What companies should look for when hiring How anyone can forge a Fun is Good career Veecks inspiring message applies to anyonetop executives, entry-level employees, and everyone in between. And his philosophy can have a broad range of applicationsfrom family to the office to midlife career choices. A breakthrough, one-of-a-kind approach to job fulfillment, FUN IS GOOD can help all of us get the most out of our work lives both in and out of the office.
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Customer Reviews
not practical for real businesses - Coffee Snob - cincinnati, ohio
the advice is fine if you are running a baseball team or some entertainment oriented company, possibly even a web-based retail company. However, if you have a real business with tough competition and a product to make, it is isnt practical.
advice for the boss includes putting the coffee maker in your office so people come talk to you.
That is great advice if you have absolutely no responsibility to produce deliverables.
anyway, the book is cute and many workplaces could benefit from a less serious attitude, but this one was almost as useful as Magic Johnson's book on how to run a business (with fame and almost unlimited capital, how hard can it be?)
Laugh a Minute - Eric Marmont - Gilbert, AZ USA
Mike Veeck and Pete Williams will keep you laughing throughout the entire book. Great example why you shouldn't take yourself to seriously and have fun with life.
Fun Is Good...Is Great! - Knowledge is Power -
What a great formula for business success! I love the philosophy behind this wonderful way to run a company and a career. Laughter is definitely more than the "Best Medicine" as this book shows....it can lead to higher profits and a real jump up the ladder of success!
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