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 | | Get Weird! 101 Innovative Ways to Make Your Company a Great Place to Work by John Putzier ISBN-10: 9780814471142 ISBN-10: 0-8144-7114-5 ISBN-13: 9780814471142 ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-7114-2 Paperback 2001-05-21 AMACOM Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description How can companies recruit, retain, train, motivate, and reward great employees--especially in a tight labor market? How can they win new customers and boost sales? The secret is to lighten up and get a little weird! Creativity and productivity can go hand in hand, as this chock-full-of-ideas book amply shows. Like a Christmas stocking crammed with treasures, Get Weird! overflows with irresistible techniques for innovating and problem-solving. It explains how to start thinking "outside the box," then presents 101 adaptable ideas, each in a reader-friendly two pages or fewer. For instance, readers will learn about: * Whaddya Know? (learning through puzzles, quizzes, and games) Slightly off-the-wall at first glance, the book is firmly rooted in solid performance theory. Managers can use it to find quick, effective, fun solutions to work challenges. | ||
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Abundance of Real World Examples and Ideas I ready this book cover-to-cover last night! It was wonderful! Tons of ideas and real world examples given for almost every topic. Beautifully put together and an aboslute delight to read. A definite must read for those in HR AND employees. Everyone plays a part in making a company a great place to work. I work in marketing and found a lot of the ideas are ones that we can use to make our company more customer-focused and a more fun place to buy and experience. I plan on using several ideas and techniques provided. Very easy, simple concepts everyone can benefit from using them. Thanks for the great book! | ||
Get Wierd is a good read Get Wierd has quite a few good ideas on how to get more out of yourself and your work. | ||
An enjoyable book. This was my 2nd business type book I've purchased.This book is all about how to being a good boss and looking after your staff and making your business a great place to work.Definitely a 101 type book.Plenty of advice here to help all business improve and keep good staff from leaving. An ideal book that all business owners should have. | ||
How weird is weird? Get Weird is a book full of not-so-weird but some practical ideas on how to make your company better-recognized, your employees happier, and your bottom line stronger. The author of Get Weird is someone who believes creativity in management comes from the HR department, so he is the kind of person who keeps "techies", as he calls them, at arms length and tosses some Hot Pockets in periodically. But, as author Putzier points out, people go to three-day seminars thinking that if they get one or two good ideas from it, it will be worth it. By those standards, everyone will find Get Weird worth it. My favorite: Family Day, when everyone brings in their children/parents/significant others, so they can see what the company and their loved one does all day. Everyone gets to leave with swag. Stupider idea, could only come from HR: Casual get togethers that involved forced mingling featuring probing personal questions of fellow employees. We do it better: Having the CEO take the entire company to a matinee, complete with complimentary snacks for all. | ||
The Real Deal As an insatiable consumer of business books, I can confidently say that "Get Weird!" is the most engaging, entertaining, yet useful business book I've ever read. It's chock full of great ideas guaranteed to make your workplace the one people on the outside want to get into. Putzier's humorous writing style and knack for knowing a great idea when he sees one make this one of the most enjoyable and beneficial business books you'll ever buy. I've recommended it to hundreds of people and will continue to for the rest of my career. | ||