Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team (APPELO, J.)

Fact: Happy organizations are more productive and more innovative.

Is there something I can do to foster a better company culture? More productivity from my team? More innovation from management? And more happiness for everyone?

Managing for Happiness offers concrete games, tools, and practices for all workers. It addresses many common leadership questions, such as:

• How can we measure performance?

• How can we reward people in a better way?

• How can we replace performance appraisals?

• How can we motivate our teams?

• How can we change the organization’s culture?
In modern organizations, people are expected to be servant leaders and systems thinkers, but nobody explains exactly how to do this. Managing for Happiness offers you serious games, innovative tools, and simple practices. You can use them immediately to motivate any team, change the culture, boost productivity, and nurture innovation across your company. Because management is too important to leave to the managers! Everyone deserves to work in a happier organization.

JURGEN APPELO is pioneering management to help creative organizations survive and thrive in the twenty-first century. He is the inventor of Management 3.0 workshops and CEO of the global business network Happy Melly. Inc.com has called him a Top 50 Leadership Expert, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, and a Top 100 Great Leadership Speaker.