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Fun Work 2ed

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Fun Works - 2nd Ed
by Leslie Yerkes

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June 4, 2007: Jay Robb's review at The Buzz on Biz

"To back up her principles, Yerkes profiles profitable and growing businesses that integrate fun into their day-to-day operations. You'll find yourself wanting to work at each and every company or at least do business with them."

June 8, 2007: In Bubble Wrap Review

"Shew! She really hit the ball out of the park with the first edition, so what else could Leslie do to make this book even better than it already is? How about going back and doing interviews with each company case-studied in the original? Ding Ding Ding!!! It's perfect. We've seen a lot of books use case studies to prop up an idea, only to have those companies fall flat on their faces. Isn't it important to know that the companies featured or studied sustained their greatness? Isn't it valuable to know that the companies are still practicing the principles originally discussed? Heck yeah it is!

And that's how something great got even better. "

June 22, 2007: Timothy Johnson's review at Carpefactum
Timothy is author of Gust, The "Tale" Wind of Office Politics, and, Race Through the Forest, A Project Management Fable.

“Sometimes we forget that work is supposed to be fun. Leslie reminds us how to return to the fun we always had in us but maybe forgot, and how to do it in a way that is good for business and good for our own spiritual and financial health.”
—Mark Albion, author of Making a Life, Making a Living and True to Yourself

“The first step towards making work fun comes when you make the rather startling revelation that sometimes for some people work really is fun—all by itself—without toys or games or party hats… Fun-wise, work-wise, quality-of-life-wise, this is a very wise book.”
—Bernie DeKoven, author of Deep Fun and CoWorking.com

“Leslie Yerkes explodes the myth that work and fun don’t mix. In fact, she decimates it!
—Dr. Beverly Kaye, President, Career Systems International and coauthor of the bestselling Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Getting Good People to Stay

The second time around is going to be even more fun and offer you more insight into organizational excellence than did the first time. FUN WORKS 2nd Edition - revised and updated - due late Spring 2007.

excerpt from Author's Preface:

During these last six years, I have come to reframe my discussion of Fun/Work Fusion to talk about the culture of a company. Creating places where people love to work is about creating a culture where individuals can freely bring the best of their whole selves to work each day. That the eleven case companies have demonstrated the resiliency and sustainability they have over the last six years I believe can be attributed to the successful interactions of these two things: business smarts and a positive culture. I call these two things hard science and soft science, and think of them as the Yin and Yang of sustainable organizations.

Hard science deals with great product, good strategy, continuous improvement, service orientation, strict fiscal management, and a vision that embraces the ever-changing business environment.

Soft science is about the people, their interactions with and relationship to their individual work and to each other -- the culture of the organization. People make the hard science work, or not work; shine or simply get by.

To be successful, an organization must first have powerful hard science. To be sustainable, the organization’s hard science must be supported by effective soft science. Both hard and soft science are equal in importance – they must both exist if success is to be the result. Yet it is the soft science that ultimately differentiates and contributes to the long-term, sustainable success.

Blog Buzz!

June 4, 2007: Jay Robb's review at The Buzz on Biz
June 8, 2007: In Bubble Wrap Review
June 22, 2007: Timothy Johnson's review at Carpefactum
Aug 3, 2007: Gary M Stern's review at Investor's Business Daily
Aug 4, 2007 Dave Rothacker's review at Rothacker's Reviews

Katherine Perkins (Iowa Public Radio) link to podcast

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from Nielsen Bookdata
This is the best and classic book on how companies bring fun into business culture. "Fun Works" is the only book that explains how real companies have successfully integrated fun practices into their workplaces. Moreover, it proves that not only can fun and work coexist, but that they can actually enhance the potency of the other. Leslie Yerkes, is the bestselling author of "301 Ways to Have Fun at Work" (over 75,000 copies sold) who has extensive experience actively utilizing direct mail, email, online, PR lists, and speaking-based marketing efforts. She will aggressively promote this book through all of the above-mentioned marketing avenues, using strategies that have been proven successful by experience. Leslie Yerkes has conducted follow-up interviews with all of the case studies to see how the principles presented in the 1st edition has progressed across the last five years. Looking at places like Southwest Airlines, Pike Place Fish, Prudential, etc. she explores the secrets that enabled companies to maintain an enjoyable work environment, and pitfalls that have inhibited others efforts to infuse fun into the workplace.

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