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 enlarge | Authors: Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  220 reviews
Sales Rank: 585
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 115
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0786866020
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.314
EAN: 9780786888825
ASIN: 0786866020
Publication Date: March 8, 2000
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Condition: Hardcover. Very light to no cover wear. Internal pages are clean and near mint. Binding is strong.
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 Motivational, but not helpful January 29, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My boss gave me this book to read and tell her what I thought. My review here will be essentially what I told her.
The FISH concept is exactly that, a concept that has been heard before from countless speakers at every business conference you have attended. Chose your attitude, have some fun at work, pay attention to people, and be focused on the present. None of these are breakthrough concepts. The book itself is a quick read; I finished it on my lunch break after she gave it to me. Large font, large margins, and lots of wasted space make and already thin book even shorter.
The biggest problem with this book is that it is written to be motivational, but not exactly helpful. Most people will read this book, and be very excited about what they have read, wanting to run right back to work and start implementing the FISH philosophy. By the end of the week this enthusiasm will be gone because, unfortunately this book does not give you the knowledge or the skills to implement their theories. The character in the book is fictional, and the results she achieved by implementing this philosophy are just as fictional. I would have been much happier to have read about a company that actually DID implement this philosophy, how they did it, and the true results they achieved. Certainly reading that a fictional person implemented it and it worked phenomenally can be motivational, but reality works differently.
The flaws in the concept can be overcome, but the book itself does not help you to achieve this. The employees have to trust their management, the management has to both trust their employees and also have employees in place that can be trusted to want to do their job to the best of their ability. Also, you have to assume that the work that the employees are doing is actually value added work. In the day and age of lawsuits over everything, trying to add "fun" to the workplace can be a terrifying thing to management who has been trained over the years that anything out of the norm can result in a lawsuit of one type or another. The suggestion of beach balls and throwing footballs around the room (from the second book "Fish Tales") is any safety manager's nightmare.
In the end, this is a weakly written book about a philosophy that is motivational, but of more use in your personal life than the business world.
 A Must Read for CEO's January 18, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a new CEO (Mayor of my Town) FISH copies sit on the front of my desk. Why? For Dept Heads and key employees when they question! FISH, Message to Garcia,Who Moved My Cheese, and When To Speak Up and When To Shut Up all sit prominently on my desk with copies for any Town Hall leader willing to take a copy and read. As a "Service Business" the messages are all clear!
 Fish Book January 12, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very inspirational read. This book will be helpful to anyone working outside the home and to students in college.
where's the beef? December 12, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Extremely predictable by the end of first 'encounter". Can't imagine this being anything but the most basic intro in workplace relations unless last job was in Soviet bloc munitions plant...
Excellent Work Tool November 25, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent work tool because the message is easily understood and works. The book is short and amusing but the theories work for any work situation where attitudes are the problem.
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