The Game of Work

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Yet whenever a winter snowstorm passes over my home in the mountains, followed by clearing skies and plunging temperatures, there is a sudden jump in employee absenteeism, particularly among young workers. From the author of The Game of Work comes a new guide to building better and more profitable companies by building better leaders. Where once people dragged their grumbling feet to get a job done, they can be all over the task at hand with energy and enthusiasm to spare, if they embrace this way of interpreting the work they do. Even though Coonradt discusses motivation, like fearmongering or the carrot on a stick, he doesn't spend enough time in how to communicate goals to the individual employee or team member. The quasi-perk of business travel will be limited, much to the joy of CFOs, and leaders will have to find ways to create meaningful and productive work environments.

People who want to get ahead, who want to win, who want to improve and get the job done—these people want feedback. Because since our earliest history mankind has been committed to better, and because the Game of Work continues to teach leaders to recognize and celebrate being better. You might want to book out a full day for this, or perhaps you’d prefer to run this over a period of time, during lunch breaks or on weekends.We examined the phenomenon that people will work harder and expend more energy in sports and other athletic pursuits than they will at their daily jobs. Ideate: Brainstorm to find ideas that can be potential solutions without qualifying them at first for quality or feasibility. Similar to the Heads Up game mentioned earlier, this game involves players sticking the name of a celebrity onto their heads. In a game of Coup, you are attempting to eliminate all other players, through a combination of robbery, taxation and assasination.

I value business books that share models of management or data analytics along with the explanation and this one delivers several interesting business models.If you want to improve the quality of performance in any area, you simply improve or increase the frequency of feedback. But it is a very rewarding game that can teach you and your colleagues the value of communicating under pressure, while helping you to understand each other just a little bit better. In a business context, these micro-adjustments come in the form of manager 1:1 or coffee sessions designed to air out problems. If you want something a little more gentle, which takes up even less space, then a foosball table is a good alternative for sport. Today’s unknown times require entrepreneurship and leadership that embraces the wholesale redesign of business processes, systems and value-creating activities to reinvent existing firms.