Get Weird!: 101 Innovative Ways to Make Your Company a Great Place to Work

New York Times October 2001
“Nurturing Your Company’s Inner Child: Let There Be Fun!” “the reiterated message .... ‘work and fun are not opposites.’”


BizLife December 2001
"This book is a funhouse of creative, inexpensive, offbeat ideas for getting the best from employees!


Book Description
How can companies recruit, retain, train, motivate, and reward great employees--especially in a tight labor market? How can they win new customers and boost sales? The secret is to lighten up and get a little weird! Creativity and productivity can go hand in hand, as this chock-full-of-ideas book amply shows. Like a Christmas stocking crammed with treasures, Get Weird! overflows with irresistible techniques for innovating and problem-solving. It explains how to start thinking "outside the box," then presents 101 adaptable ideas, each in a reader-friendly two pages or fewer. For instance, readers will learn about: * Whaddya Know? (learning through puzzles, quizzes, and games) * Hire-Times (post-interview fun--a night-on-the-town with host employees) * Wall of Fame (display of individual successes) * Rock Me, Baby (give techies and GenXers the rock-concert tickets they crave) * Galloping Gourmets (take-home gourmet dinners for employees and their family). Slightly off-the-wall at first glance, the book is firmly rooted in solid performance theory. Managers can use it to find quick, effective, fun solutions to work challenges.


Book Info
A collection of out-of-the-box best practices for high performance in the workplace, offering readers innovative tips, tools, and techniques for spicing up life at work, while increasing productivity. Features a powerful, yet down-to-earth style, and advice for changing the and culture of any workplace. Softcover. DLC: Organizational change--Handbooks, manuals, etc.


About the Author
John Putzier (Prospect, PA) is president of the consulting firm FirStep, Inc., which provides strategies to improve workplace performance. He is a prolific and popular speaker.


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Workplace performance expert Putzier offers 101 ways to make the workplace a more enjoyable and productive environment. In a lighthearted manner, he discusses how to change the tone and culture of a company with quick and often inexpensive ideas in order to improve employee morale, creative thinking, and work output. Other topics include attracting and retaining the best available talent, enhancing the company image, lowering stress, providing recognition and incentives, and implementing training and development strategies. The book lacks a bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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