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Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
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Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

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Over 5 million copies sold! Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day.

A powerful parable that will help you see your life and work in a new way.

It's a rainy day in Seattle, and on the third floor of First Guarantee Financial, people have stopped believing they can make a difference. To new manager Mary Jane Ramirez, the challenge of bringing life back to her unenthusiastic and unmotivated team seems impossible – until she discovers an incredibly successful workplace down the street where the employees are so alive and passionate that people stop just to watch them work!

FISH! is the remarkable story of what happens when Mary Jane seeks the help of these unlikely business "experts" and learns their secret: Four simple practices that, when applied daily, help anyone to be more energized, effective, and fulfilled.

Filled with inspiration and timeless wisdom that will resonate with anyone in any field or career level, it's easy to see why FISH! is one of the most popular business parables of all time. People in organizations around the world use its practical lessons to improve customer service, build trust and teamwork, bolster leadership, and increase employee satisfaction. They also use the lessons to strengthen personal relationships, fulfill lifelong dreams, and realize their ambitions.

FISH! will help you discover the amazing power that is already inside you to make a positive difference – wherever you are in life.

Based on a best-selling ChartHouse training video which has been adopted by corporations including Southwest Airlines, Sprint, and Nordstrom.

A Hachette Audio production.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 27, 2014
ISBN9781478955375
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Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5


    Some good ideas, rather trite presentation.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This story has an allegorical feel about it as it provides insight into how to turn a toxic energy dump into a fun place to work.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An easy to read, very true book. Not quite a mind boggling story. However, after reading the book you'll find that some principles indeed are quite useful and essential (such as fun in work, honest interest in people etc.) to create a healthy work environment.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A fun little ditty that can be read in about an hour.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Decent, simple advice: Choose your attitude; Play; Be present in the moment; and Make your customer's day. Awful backstory to present the four maxims - very saccharine and annoying.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I like the concepts, though I found the story to be a bit lacking. We've instituted these practices at work and I've got to say that I'm enjoying it. Having fun at work is HUGELY important and this book teaches to that concept.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A condenscending little book that takes you for an idiot. Which is very unfortunate, because the message is important. The ideas could have been presented in 10 minutes on two sheets of paper - but then Lundin wouldn@t have made a fortune.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Encourages you to have a positive attitude to life and work and demonstrates the benefits through an engaging story of a fishmarket
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This is the worst book I have ever read. As it is also too slender to act as a doorstop and too light to use as a functional defense mechanism, it has no redeemable value whatsoever.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A good workplace recommendation. Thanks boss.Sep 2006Fish is written as a personal parable much in the fashion of Ishmael, making the structure and information much easier to digest and relate to. A well chosen story path displaying many traits, doubts, and questions, which readers can see themselves in. Not epiphanic, but still uplifting.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A great way to pick up your attitude about work. We all pretty much hate it, is the theme, but we can't really afford to have that attitude if we hope to have a satisfying life. This books gives very specific advice on how to improve your attitude about work, and therefore your life.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Interesting and unique ideas. I love the concept of be there and choosing one's attitude when approaching a situation. These are the two things that took away from this book. Now to incorporate and implement them into my life and work.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    very goo book I love it and I will use it at work. Thanks
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I've read this before and this new version isn't much different, just some extra example stories at the end. Still quite some value in this book, just disappointing that the whole company around it has become very commercialised.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    What bothers me about books like this is that they are short little fantasies that tie up loose ends too cleanly. And I only read this book because we were told to at work for a "team-building exercise." Perhaps a good message, but I don't need it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A short story, presumably fiction, about a woman who steps into a messy new supervising role with the company she works. An encounter with the friendly staff of a nearby fish market one lunch time leads her to the solution to her problems.1 Choose the attitude that you bring to your work2 Make work playful3 Make the day of those you interact with such as customers4 Be present - actively listen
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The book essentially talks about one idea - 'Work made fun gets done.' In particular it deals with how to save the workplace from becoming a 'toxic energy dump'.



    The fish! Philosophy -

    1. Bring the right attitude to work - Choose your attitude just like you would in a rough neighbourhood - where you don't show nerve.

    2. Play - Fun is energizing and helps a serious business.

    3. Make their day - Include Customers in your good time; create goodwill.

    4. Be Present - Not tied down by the past or dreaming away into the future. Giving full attention is the surest sign of a good relationship.

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An amusing little anecdote that entertained me through work and explained the playful nature behind how my newest work is run. It's not too bad, even if the ending is a little too forced.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    We are all looking for enjoyment and satisfaction from our work where we spend about 75% of our awake time. This book is a fictional account of a workplace that is a ‘toxic energy dump’ and the motivational management techniques that are put in place to help the workers love the work they do even if they can’t always be doing the work they love. It is based on four lessons: ‘choose your attitude’, ‘play’, ‘make their day’ and ‘be present’. This book was interesting as a quick read with some principles that may be useful in the workplace as long as you can get past its ‘Americanisms.’

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    We are all looking for enjoyment and satisfaction from our work where we spend about 75% of our awake time. This book is a fictional account of a workplace that is a ‘toxic energy dump’ and the motivational management techniques that are put in place to help the workers love the work they do even if they can’t always be doing the work they love. It is based on four lessons: ‘choose your attitude’, ‘play’, ‘make their day’ and ‘be present’. This book was interesting as a quick read with some principles that may be useful in the workplace as long as you can get past its ‘Americanisms.’