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Summary: Don't Starve, Learn To Fish!
Review: An excellent book for our changing work enviroment. Let's face it, the workplace isn't the same as it use to be. you better get on board or be left behind. This book will show you how.
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Summary: Your actions are geared to everyones satisfaction
Review: As a manager of a real estate firm in south forida, I pride myself in motivating all of my associates. When I read fish I brought out excitement. When I finished Fish Tales, I brought out enthusiasm. and now I can bring out exhileration. You must lead by example. [...]
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Summary: Overcome gravity
Review: Change starts with the infusion of external energy and a promise of better things. But soon the gravity of the old ways pulls it back. This book is about sustaining the change process by using our internal energy. Fish! was a good parable with lots of excitement at the Pike place fish market. This is a forward integration, moving up the value chain. We are in Takara Too, a sushi restaurant, where customers don't mind waiting in long queues for the wonderful experience once inside and to be received by a loud cheer from the staff. If you have forgotten your reading glasses and have difficulty in reading the menu card, the waiter will be pleased to offer you half a dozen variations of reading glasses that can help. If your favorite beverage is not on the menu, it is sourced from a nearby store before you realize. The good news is that the principles behind such a marvelous atmosphere to work in apply to workplaces in any industry. It is important to Find IT, Be IT and Coach IT. At the end, I realized that the personal tragedy Steve Ludin (author) suffered has had its impact on the story. The loss of Beth, his thirty-one year old daughter in a car accident to whom this book is dedicated. Beth lived a full life true to the spirit of Fish!. In her memory, I rededicate my commitment to Fish!
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Summary: This Fish STINKS!
Review: Chirpy ideas, bad writing. I feel sorry for the poor saps who get stuck being slaves under this motivational trash. In your job, to "make their day" is best made by giving them a paycheck, or better yet a raise. That's why people work. You have to "be there" otherwise you get fired. As for "play"? Heh. Who feels like "playing" when they feel like they're going to puke when they are force-fed this garbage at the office?
Choose your attitude...yeah. Most people who work go because they have to. Their boss chooses their attitude. "Smile no matter how you feel or your butt hits the sidewalk."
Fish are among the dumbest creatures alive today...near the very bottom of the evolutionary scale and have nothing for brains...hmm...I guess a fish wrote this book.
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Summary: Making change stick
Review: How do you get a group of people to adopt new strategies of coping with change? This story provides food for thought. I recommend you read it along with Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self. When we use Optimal Thinking, we take the most constructive actions and achieve what is supremely important.
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Summary: Making change stick
Review: How do you get a group of people to adopt new strategies of coping with change? This story provides food for thought. I recommend you read it along with Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self. When we use Optimal Thinking, we take the most constructive actions and achieve what is supremely important.
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Summary: Make your changes stick
Review: I have seen motivational speakers pump up a crowd to a frenzy, and two weeks later the same people in the crowd don't even remember being there. The same thing happens with these parable books. I liked this book because it took it to the next level by teaching us how to make the changes and ideas actually stick in the long term, now that is productive. Another great book is Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life, it too offers stories and advice on improving your workplace and life.
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Summary: Make your changes stick
Review: I liked this book because it took the parable book concept to a more productive level by teaching readers how to make changes and ideas stick after the story ends. Fish Sticks is like a motivational speaker who gives you solid, practical tips that you remember even after the conference. Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life by JoAnna Carey is another great book for companies to share with employees because it offers entertaining stories and goal oriented advice about improving your workplace and your life.
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Summary: Nothing to shout about
Review: I very much "get it" and still have a very negative review of this book and the entire "philosophy" that stems from this series. The mantra of "Be happy, find your IT, coach your peers" woven into a horribly redundant and sophomoric tale of a hospital floor meets sushi bar is more than any astute well-read reader can bear for more than 119 pages. Philosophy, ideology, beliefs- whatever word you choose, are not easily summed up, not readily paralleled to one fish market, and certainly cannot be distilled to a glorified pamphlet that, although it champions "deep conversation" never dares to go into the very nature of work. Luckily the author anticipates these gross shortcomings and, given the lack of a substantial ideological foundation from which to build, leaves it to the reader to "find his or her own path." This book may be an adequate primer for someone who reads very little and may understand less. The story and dialogue is literally at a sixth to eight grade reading level at its best moments. This is not a book for thoughtful, questioning, analytical, and educated discerning adults. For a more interesting and dynamic exploration on the nature of work and how it affects our lives one might turn to Walden, Fight Club, Notes From The Underground, Steppenwolf, or just about any counter-capitalist thought to name a few. Then one might discover that transcending work roles rather than defining ones' self by them is the true nature of an individual path.
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Summary: More Pop-Philosophy Rooted In Trite Generalizations
Review: I very much "get it" and still have a very negative review of this book and the entire "philosophy" that stems from this series. The mantra of "Be happy, find your IT, coach your peers" woven into a horribly redundant and sophomoric tale of a hospital floor meets sushi bar is more than any astute well-read reader can bear for more than 119 pages. Philosophy, ideology, beliefs- whatever word you choose, are not easily summed up, not readily paralleled to one fish market, and certainly cannot be distilled to a glorified pamphlet that, although it champions "deep conversation" never dares to go into the very nature of work. Luckily the author anticipates these gross shortcomings and, given the lack of a substantial ideological foundation from which to build, leaves it to the reader to "find his or her own path." This book may be an adequate primer for someone who reads very little and may understand less. The story and dialogue is literally at a sixth to eight grade reading level at its best moments. This is not a book for thoughtful, questioning, analytical, and educated discerning adults. For a more interesting and dynamic exploration on the nature of work and how it affects our lives one might turn to Walden, Fight Club, Notes From The Underground, Steppenwolf, or just about any counter-capitalist thought to name a few. Then one might discover that transcending work roles rather than defining ones' self by them is the true nature of an individual path.
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