Joy at Work

A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job

Paperback, 314 pages

English language

Published July 30, 2006 by PVG.

ISBN:
9780976268642
OCLC Number:
57707154

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4 stars

Dennis Bakke gives a great take on how to transform your old industrial-age business to a modern, decentralized, employee-driven one where people actually fun (yes, FUN!) at work. His account of how he created and transformed his business in the energy industry with his company AES is very informative. If you work in the software industry then you will probably draw a lot of parallels to how your business and teams are ran and how he was trying to do this back in the 1980s.

Ultimately, what you should take from this book as a business leader is that you want to stop the "manager-employee" relationship and instead step back and let your employees make all of the tough decisions. It's not easy! You have to give up power, you have to be more transparent and actually give the employees the tools they need to make those decisions. It's a …

Subjects

  • Motivational
  • Leadership In Business
  • Executive Management
  • Business & Economics
  • Business / Economics / Finance
  • Business/Economics
  • Management - General
  • Human Resources & Personnel Management
  • Leadership