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Managing for Happiness
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Managing for Happiness

Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team

Jurgen Appelo
Wiley, 2016

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Management expert Jurgen Appelo offers a unique formula for making your organization vibrant and productive. Appelo shows you how to put his advice into practice. Instead of focusing on theoretical approaches to building motivation and contentment, he provides games and exercises that you can implement. The playful layout of his pages may enthrall you – or drive you crazy. Yet wisdom, common sense and solutions any organization can use lurk within the busy graphics and comic book format. This is solid HR advice for someone new to the field or anyone who appreciates having it packaged so cleverly, but it’s not news to experienced practitioners. getAbstract recommends Appelo’s sound management philosophy and hands-on techniques for boosting excellence, productivity and morale to entrepreneurs, executives, HR professionals and managers at every level.

Take-Aways

  • Good organizations have practices and principles. They define their core values and live according to them.
  • Values are useless unless you’re prepared to back them up.
  • Micromanagement creates organizational dysfunction.

About the Author

Leadership expert and speaker Jurgen Appelo is CEO of the global business network Happy Melly. He originated the Management 3.0 workshops.

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    F. U. 3 months ago
    Keeping the workplace more attractive and motivating empowers every employee. The reading generates new ideas for implementing modern management designed to improve employee satisfaction and overall team performance. A Happy and Productive Team offers practical strategies for managers to improve their leadership skills.
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    C. G. 7 years ago
    It will work if only have support from the Top.
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    V. M. 7 years ago
    нормально изложена мысль автора