What will Fun Works do for you? Fun Works will provide you with the principles that, which if applied successfully, will help you integrate your work with fun, sustain an engaging culture, and develop effective soft science. When fun and work are once again completely integrated in your organization, you will work enthusiastically, enjoy the process, and recover more fully during your time away from work.
The title of this book, Fun Works, is itself the simplest benefit statement: fun works. If you follow the principles and be them, then fun works. It is also an aspiration: Can I create a joyful company, a ‘Fun Works, Inc.?’ Can I create a place where we not only produce quality products and services but a place that is known for the fun we have while creating internal and external relationships?
How we think about work is not a constant, it changes. We are now beginning to think about the integration of fun and work and we are beginning to demand working conditions that have an acceptable blend of fun and work. It’s time to talk about fun at work and to raise it to a higher plane, to make fun at work important once again. I hope that Fun Works will be able to help you do just that.
It is my belief, and I hope it becomes yours, that fun works.
The Second Edition of Fun Works follows up with the key companies showcased in the First Edition.
Of special interest is the Isle of Capri and how they were affected by Hurricane Katrina.