{"product_id":"joy-at-work-a-revolutionary-approach-to-fun-on-the-job","title":"Joy At Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun On The Job","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most  fun  workplace ever, obliterate labormanagement divisions and push decisionmaking responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today s bottomline corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more.In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the true story of this extraordinary companyand how, as its cofounder and longtime CEO, he challenged the business establishment with revolutionary ideas that could remake America s organizations. It is the story of AES, whose business model and operating ethos  let s have fun were conceived during a 90minute car ride from Annapolis, Maryland, to Washington, D.C. In the next two decades, it became a worldwide energy giant with 40,000 employees in 31 countries and revenues of $8.6 billion. It s a remarkable tale told by a remarkable man: Bakke, a farm boy who was shaped by his religious faith, his years at Harvard Business School, and his experience working for the Federal Energy Administration. He rejects workplace drudgery as a noxious remnant of the Industrial Revolution. He believes work should be fun, and at AES he set out to prove it could be. Bakke sought not the empty  fun  of the Friday beer blast but the joy of a workplace where every person, from custodian to CEO, has the power to use his or her Godgiven talents free of needless corporate bureaucracy.In Joy at Work, Bakke tells how he helped create a company where every decision made at the top was lamented as a lost chance to delegate responsibilityand where all employees were encouraged to take the  gamewinning shot,  even when it wasn t a slamdunk. Perhaps Bakke s most radical stand was his struggle to break the stranglehold of  creating shareholder value  on the corporate mindset and replace it with more timeless values: integrity, fairness, social responsibility, and a sense of fun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pear Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47333196595445,"sku":"DADAX0976268604","price":12.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/715yardY1AL.jpg?v=1763909010","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/joy-at-work-a-revolutionary-approach-to-fun-on-the-job","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}