Fun is Good - Read Jim Fulner

audio cd

English language

Published July 3, 2006 by Coach Series.

ISBN:: 978-1-59659-046-5

Maverick marketing whiz Mike Veeck presents his simple, no-fail formula for business success: make work fun and you'll create a culture where the best people will want to work and customers will want to spend their money. Mike Veeck runs six minor-league baseball teams, and for each of them he's drafted a business plan that begins with three simple words: "Fun is good." The fun-is-good philosophy not only has worked to make an evening at one of his ballparks--full of laughs, zany promotions, and free giveaways--enjoyable for everyone; it has transformed a half-dozen money-losing or start-up teams into a thriving $25 million business. In this book Veeck, son of legendary baseball owner Bill Veeck, shows why an injection of fun, creativity, and passion is so essential to business success. We learn: o Why customer service, the lifeblood of any business, suffers when employees aren't having fun at work o How …

Maverick marketing whiz Mike Veeck presents his simple, no-fail formula for business success: make work fun and you'll create a culture where the best people will want to work and customers will want to spend their money. Mike Veeck runs six minor-league baseball teams, and for each of them he's drafted a business plan that begins with three simple words: "Fun is good." The fun-is-good philosophy not only has worked to make an evening at one of his ballparks--full of laughs, zany promotions, and free giveaways--enjoyable for everyone; it has transformed a half-dozen money-losing or start-up teams into a thriving $25 million business. In this book Veeck, son of legendary baseball owner Bill Veeck, shows why an injection of fun, creativity, and passion is so essential to business success. We learn: o Why customer service, the lifeblood of any business, suffers when employees aren't having fun at work o How just a few people with the fun-is-good attitude can transform an entire workplace o What companies should look for when hiring people and how employees can forge a fun-is-good career path. Throughout, the book is peppered with vignettes, where we hear firsthand from people who have benefited professionally and personally from the fun-is-good philosophy and how they have applied it specifically to their own industries and careers.

1 edition

Jim Fulner reviewed Fun is Good by Mike Veeck

review

5 stars

I had wanted to read this book written by the owner of the St. Paul Saints for quite some time. When I found it on audio book I couldn't pass it up. [return][return]This book was more amazing than I had hoped for. It is not just on the Saints but really about how to apply the same attitude that makes the St. Paul Saints the best entertainment dollar in the Twin Cities (even though they compete against superior products like the Minnesota Twins, and the Minnesota Wild) to YOUR work place. [return][return]Frequently I will recommend books I liked to friends/family, rarely I will go as far to purchase it myself. This one was so good that I actually purchased another copy of the audio book before I even finished it. [return][return]Its not just a self-help book either. It truly is great art. I argue that great art is that which …

I had wanted to read this book written by the owner of the St. Paul Saints for quite some time. When I found it on audio book I couldn't pass it up. [return][return]This book was more amazing than I had hoped for. It is not just on the Saints but really about how to apply the same attitude that makes the St. Paul Saints the best entertainment dollar in the Twin Cities (even though they compete against superior products like the Minnesota Twins, and the Minnesota Wild) to YOUR work place. [return][return]Frequently I will recommend books I liked to friends/family, rarely I will go as far to purchase it myself. This one was so good that I actually purchased another copy of the audio book before I even finished it. [return][return]Its not just a self-help book either. It truly is great art. I argue that great art is that which provokes an emotional response, and this audio book had me laughing, and crying, more times than anything I have ever heard. [return][return]I just hope I can find the courage to make "Fun is Good" in my workplace, or find another if its rejected here.

Subjects

Humor in the workplace
Social aspects
Corporate culture
Business Life - General
United States
Business & Economics
Unabridged Audio - Business/Professional
Motivational
Career/Job
Industrial management
Human Resources & Personnel Management
Self-Help / General
Careers - General