Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team

July 20, 2016

Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team

In modern organizations, people are expected to be servant leaders and systems thinkers, but nobody explains exactly how to do this on a Monday morning. Empowering workers and delighting customers is crucial, but it’s not obvious. Managers, and everyone else, need to know how because most organizational problems are management problems. Managing for Happiness provides games and tools that make management (and work) fun again.

Managing for Happiness:  Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team; Publication Date:  July 2016; ISBN: 978-1-119-26868-0; $35; Paper) offers a complete set of practices for more effective management that makes work fun. It's not about gimmicks or 'perks' that disrupt productivity; it's about finding the passion that drives your business, and making it contagious. Managing for Happiness provides tools, games, and practices that put joy into work, with practical, real-world guidance for empowering workers and delighting customers. These aren't break time exploits or downtime amusements—they're real solutions for common management problems. Define roles and responsibilities, create meaningful team metrics, and replace performance appraisals with something more useful. An organization's culture rests on the back of management, and Managing for Happiness shows you how to create change for the better.

Managing for Happiness helps readers:

• Redefine job titles and career paths
• Motivate workers and measure team performance
• Change your organization's culture
• Make management—and work—fun again

To survive in the 21st century, companies need to dig past the obvious and find what works. What keeps top talent? What inspires customer loyalty? The answer is great management, which inspires great employees, who then provide a great customer experience. Managing for Happiness is a practical handbook for achieving organizational greatness.

Managing for Happiness is now available for purchase online and at retailers nationwide in both print and all e-book formats. For a full list of retailers, visit www.wiley.com/buy/9781119268680

 

Managing for Happiness:  Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team

By Jurgen Appelo

Publication Date:  July 2016

$35; Paper

ISBN: 978-1-119-26868-0