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Summary: Hook, Line and Sinker
Review: While the parable is forced, the message is clear and inspirational. You can ( and should ) enjoy your work. The simple framework is one any company - large or small - can follow. It takes very little money and a lot of courage to break out of a traditional mode.I'm a believer in Fish and have passed on my copy to our leadership team. It's a quick read (2 hours max) and inspirational. Most of all, it is easily understood. You can tell where companies have used it, employees have a different attitude.
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Summary: Same ideas, different book
Review: The concepts presented in this book are what my 8-year-old nephew would call completely "duh." Yes, we all know that we can choose how to react to situations, that having fun at work improves office morale, making someone's day brighter is a warm fuzzy for everyone involved, and the ability to be fully present when interacting with people improves the success of your business endeavors. To further insult their readers' intuition into these basic principles, the authors of this book wrap the most convenient of circumstances around the main character, Mary Jane. She has recently been promoted to lead an office described as a "toxic energy dump," a phrase used more than one too many times in this parable. She meets a single, charismatic fishmonger after taking a wrong turn during a lunchtime stroll, who advises her on the secrets to office utopia, and she decides to share this with her co-workers. Although the office morale has been in a slump long enough to give it a terrible reputation, once Mary Jane presents these innovative new ideas aimed at fostering a more energetic office environment, everyone is immediately on board and ready to jump in headfirst. As you might imagine, Mary Jane and her fellow employees are able to apply the lessons learned at the fish market to their own situation, and awards, tears of joy and gratitude, etc., soon follow. (I won't even go into the slightly more riduculous event at the book's conclusion.) However, instead of feeling inspired upon finishing this book, I felt like an even bigger cynic, and well, nauseous.
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Summary: Almost as good as a Kenneth Blanchard book
Review: Fish! is a good book with a short story that has a powerful message on how to improve morale and have fun at the job. It doesn't go quite as indepth as I'd like, but it does make a point...especially about choosing your attitude.
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Summary: 4 simple principles to make your organization fun.
Review: Fish is simple. The book espouses 4 principles that are simple to understand yet often missing in most workplaces. Reading this book will help any business leader/manager look for ways to involve their employees in making their jobs fun and enjoyable and thereby a place they want to be. I manage the accounting and finance areas of my organization and I purchased Fish for all my employees. We have begun meeting and discussing ways to apply the principles found in Fish, the first dealing directly with the employee and their attitude when they walk in the door. The attitude they bring to work will effect their day and the effect the people around them. Fish leads you from helping your employees understand the importance of their attitude to helping them make the workplace vibrant and enjoyable for everyone. There are a million books in the marketplace telling you how to make your employee's lives easier. Fish tackles the concept that the employee is responsible for taking the first step to make the organization a great place. Too often, we are told the company makes the people. The fact is, the people make the company. Fish will help you decide whether to allow your people to languish or lead them to a better and happier life and job.
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Summary: Inspirational...
Review: I believe that this book gave me even more motivation to work with the difficult people in my office setting and take stock in the problems we face on a daily basis. Fish! inspired me to continue to move forward with attitude-changing thoughts and to try to get all of our office staff to believe we are working toward one goal: customer satisfaction while having fun. The thoughts have been planted... now the process begins. I would suggest that all staff members read the book!
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Summary: Fish ain't no cheese
Review: I loved "Who Moved My Cheese?" It was simple without being simplisic and almost profound. "Fish!" is simple and simplistic. It's a great story about what happened, but not too many principles that can be transferred. Sorry.
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Summary: Particularly good for groups
Review: As a business consultant, I am always looking for new tools to use with group facilitation. I have used this book in several corporations and have found it to be excellent at inspiring group discussion, buy-in, and commitment. The book is a fun, quick read and I have never been at a company that did not profit from this book. There doesn't seem to be a lot out there around the topic of motivation. This one fits the bill!
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Summary: More than one way to make work fun and rewarding
Review: FISH is truly a fun book -- fun to read, fun to think about, and fun to use. I notice that I'm not the only FISH reader who also bought WINNING WAYS: FOUR SECRETS FOR GETTING GREAT RESULTS BY WORKING WELL WITH PEOPLE, by Dick Lyles. I highly recommend reading both books together. FISH shows how to find enjoyment and happiness in your job, and WINNING WAYS shows how to find fulfillment in relatinships with others. It vivdly illustrates how to increase your effectiveness and enhance your personal power with everyone around you. Both books are written like short novels, so the characters are easy to identify with. The fictional format made it super easy for me to relate to the ideas and figure out ways to make my work more fun and my relationships more satisfying. I don't know what the authors' secrets are for finding such clever ways to get these lessons across, but both books contain lessons every one of us can use to achieve greater happiness and success in our careers. Although I read both books a couple of months ago, I got a promotion just last week because I've been using the ideas at work. Everyone who wants a more positive outlook about their work should read FISH, and everyone who wants to be more influential and have truly positive relationships with co-workers, friends, and family should read WINNING WAYS.
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Summary: It's Right On Target!
Review: I'm not wild about the use of business parables (One Minute Manager type books), but this one works pretty well. However, the message is really the point. It not only addresses engaging workers to perform better, but it addresses what superior customer service is all about, too. Read the book, but invest in the CharterHouse video. Seeing the Pike Place Fish Market guys do their thing is pretty spectacular. They aren't called "World-Famous" for nothing. They worked for it and they earned it!
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Summary: Sometimes Solutions Really Are This Simple
Review: How come so many of us feel that unless a solution is complicated and drawn out, it can't possibly be effective? Having read this book I can find the solution simply and effectively. The author could have certainly drawn it out and inserted a lot of typical corporate double talk and taken us down a winding road to a solution but he didn't. The only other recent book that did that for me was called "REJECT ME - I LOVE IT!" Both of these books focused on a single issue that exists in Corporate America and they both offer clear and consise solutions. Simple but not easy. Just like everything else in life worth having. Both of these books should be in your collection if you aren't satisied with where you are both professionaly and personally.
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