About Fish!: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
The powerful parable that has helped millions to see their lives and work in a new way — now revised and updated to celebrate 20 years of working with greater purpose!
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, 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, and to live with greater purpose and happiness. FISH! will help you discover the amazing power that is already inside you to make a positive difference — wherever you are in life.
- Complete Title: Fish!: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 160
- Publication Time: March 10, 2020
- Publisher: Hachette Go
- ISBN: 0306846195
- ISBN13: 9780306846199
About Stephen C. Lundin
Stephen C. Lundin
Stephen Lundin is a writer, entrepreneur and filmmaker with a rich history as a graduate level business school professor and dean. Steve has written a number of books including the multimillion copy best selling FISH! and the simply bestselling FISH! Tales, FISH! Sticks and FISH! for Life.
Reviews Fish!: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Trisha
Suckiest book ever! This was an obligatory “work read”. It was the classic corporate mumbo jumbo. Imagine a sucky group of employees with bad attitudes…in walks this great boss. With only the tap of…
Nicholas Karpuk
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard so much negative feedback on a book that no one’s actually read.A coworker cleaning out his desk handed me this slim hardback volume along with “Leadership and the One…
K.D. Absolutely
Our company is using Fish! philosophy. I have been working for the past 27 years and all my previous three or four employers did not allow any of these: Halloween area decorations contest, global fest…
Trudy
I know it is a matter of perspective certainly, but I think a one star rating is missing the point of this book… It is absolutely not going to be winning any writing awards, but it contains lessons…
Eli
I gave this book one star only because Good Reads won’t let me give it half a star. It was a work assignment. How do I loathe it, let me count the ways: 1. Abysmal writing. Fish was apparently written…
David Sven
Read this for work. Easy and quick to read.The Fish philosophy is modelled on the work culture of a fishmonger’s at Seattle’s Pike Place Markets.Summarised1. Choose your attitude2. Play/Have fun (They…
Ravenskya
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…
Evan
A GR friend listed this, which reminded me that I “owned” a copy at one time. Actually what happened was this: My former employer was sending us office peons to a motivational retreat out in the count…
Adrianna
Fish is a business book written as a parable. Its purpose is coach its readers into a new way of carrying out their business environment in order to make employees more productive. It does so by enlig…