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Maverick marketing whiz Mike Veeck presents his simple, no-fail formula for business success: make work fun and you will generate a culture where in fact the best people would want to work and customers would want to spend their money.Mike Veeck runs six minor-league baseball teams, and for each of them he's drafted a small business plan that starts with three simple words: "Fun is good." The fun-is-good philosophy not only has worked to make an evening at one of his ballparks--full of laughs, zany promotions, and free giveaways--enjoyable for everybody; it offers transformed a half-dozen money-losing or start-up teams into a thriving $25 million business.In this particular book Veeck, son of legendary baseball owner Bill Veeck, shows why an injection of fun, creativity, and passion is so essential to business success. We learn:
o Why customer support, the lifeblood of any business, suffers when employees aren't having a great time at work
o How only a few people who have the fun-is-good attitude can transform an entire workplace
o What companies should look for when hiring people and exactly how employees can forge a fun-is-good career path.Throughout, the book is peppered with vignettes, where we hear firsthand from people who have benefited professionally and personally from the fun-is-good philosophy and exactly how they have applied it specifically with their own industries and careers.
