Fish Tales: Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life by Stephen Lundin

BATB score: 9/10 🐟

*book elevator pitch* how did Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle (mandate roles, smelly fish, early hours, low wages) be a fun, happy, great place to work?

Best as: simple easy good read, here’s a conclusive book summary

1. PLAY - Work made fun gets done.

2. MAKE THEIR DAY - turn routine encounters into special memories

3. BE THERE - be present wholeheartedly

4. CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE - optimism and gratefulness attracts positivity

Best for: a reminder for all of us that life should be fun and play

BATB lingering thought: almost a 10/10; it was too softie + redundant at times plus nature of work has change 360 since 2000s but okay concept premise still applies

Best to: when managing a call center, ask everyone to dress up in blow up dinosaur outfits 🦖 🦕 starting with manager to go all out and lead by example, then install a disco ball 🪩 💃🏻 🕺

Best quotes: “The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. It is those things you do halfheartedly that really wear you out.”

“Why can’t we just be where we are?”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

“Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear - and make their day.”

“As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful.”

“Find ways to play. We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves.”

“When we choose to love the work we do, we can catch our limit of happiness, meaning, and fulfillment every day.”