There are a lot of business books. A lot.
Most focus on driving success factors such as performance, productivity, efficiency, growth.
Very few focus on whether any of it makes us any happier.
This is that book.
Better than that, it provides plausible, real-world ideas that you can employ in your own workplace to make things more fun. Layer in on top of that the fact that the ideas come bound with a convincing level of evidence behind them and the fact that the whole thing is written in a very accessible style and you find yourself beliveing that you CAN deploy these concepts in your environment.
Daisley does bring the back-up that all of this can lead to additional performance gains and business benefit, but you sense that isn't his primary mission here. The competitive gains are a consequence not the momentum. He actually believes work can be a better place. If you check out his background and his podcast history, it looks like he's pretty well qualified to make this case - he's a successful guy and he's done his homework on this subject, interviewing some of the world's foremost work-psychologists, gurus and researchers.
I can’t say I will be able to implement all of his recommendations (there are plenty), my organisation isn’t ready for all of it (yet), but I have already made use of several elements of his 'New Work Manifesto' and I can vouch for the fact it isn’t just theoretical.
Without question the best business book I’ve picked up in many years.
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