Make the Right Choice
Creating a Positive, Innovative, and Productive Work Life
By: Joel Zeff
Published: Aug 10, 2007
ISBN: 9780470099292
Format: Hardcover, 208pp
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
We all crave opportunity and positive support to fuel us to accomplish our goals, writes best selling author Joel Zeff in his humorous, outlook changing primer Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative, and Productive Work Life. Fun, passion, and happiness are choices that can improve workplace teamwork and productivity, while enhancing the appreciation of the company's employees.
Joel Zeff understands that people choose to be happy at work, while others choose to be negative and opposed to change. That difference in attitude is one of choice. Instead of catering the naysayers in the organization, and falling for myths that fun is not productive, the author sets out the value of games and of play for strengthening an organization. Change is constant, and how people meet and embrace that change will often determine a company's success.
Joel Zeff packs the book with humor and running jokes as he tackles serious workplace issues. The challenges include developing stronger teams, running more productive meetings, creative problem solving, and discovering new ways of rewarding and thanking employees for a job well done. In the end, the author recognizes that happiness is a personal choice made on the individual level. The person can choose to do the job in the best possible way, and help others succeed at their tasks as well. That personal choice to enjoy life, and to have fun at work, will also create a more productive employee.
For me, the power of the book is the combination of humor with practical techniques and games for developing happier employees. Instead of an organization where internal competition or lack of creativity stifles teamwork, the games help overcome barriers to working together toward a common goal. Instead of the time wasting activities of endless meetings and conference calls, Joel Zeff proposes creative problem solving, accepting change, and building a happier team. The result is a more productive and profitable organization, as well as more satisfied customers.
I highly recommend Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative, and Productive Work Life by Joel Zeff, to anyone choosing to have more fun at work. Anyone seeking to develop a happier and more innovative work life will benefit from this book. Instead of letting the negative types who shoot down every new idea get in the way of change, forge ahead with passion and play, creating a new type of fun workplace.
Read Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative, and Productive Work Life by Joel Zeff, and change your attitude from unhappy and disgruntled to happy and fun loving. Work is much more fun when it's turned into play.
