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    The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace
    The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace
    The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace
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    The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

    Written by Ron Friedman

    Narrated by Walter Dixon

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    About this audiobook

    For readers of Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, and Freakonomics, comes a captivating and surprising journey through the science of workplace excellence.

    Why do successful companies reward failure? What can casinos teach us about building a happy workplace? How do you design an office that enhances both attention to detail and creativity?

    In The Best Place to Work, award-winning psychologist Ron Friedman, Ph.D. uses the latest research from the fields of motivation, creativity, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and management to reveal what really makes us successful at work. Combining powerful stories with cutting edge findings, Friedman shows leaders at every level how they can use scientifically-proven techniques to promote smarter thinking, greater innovation, and stronger performance.

    Among the many surprising insights, Friedman explains how learning to think like a hostage negotiator can help you diffuse a workplace argument, why placing a fish bowl near your desk can elevate your thinking, and how incorporating strategic distractions into your schedule can help you reach smarter decisions. Along the way, the book introduces the inventor who created the cubicle, the president who brought down the world's most dangerous criminal, and the teenager who single-handedly transformed professional tennis-vivid stories that offer unexpected revelations on achieving workplace excellence.

    Brimming with counterintuitive insights and actionable recommendations, The Best Place to Work offers employees and executives alike game-changing advice for working smarter and turning any organization-regardless of its size, budgets, or ambitions-into an extraordinary workplace.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9781469030630
    The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace
    Author

    Ron Friedman

    Ron Friedman, PhD, is an award-winning psychologist and the founder of ignite80, a learning and development company that teaches leaders science-based strategies for building high-performing teams. His research has been featured on NPR, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, as well as in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Fast Company, Psychology Today, and Harvard Business Review. He is the author of The Best Place to Work, an Inc. Magazine Best Business Book of the Year, and Decoding Greatness. He lives in Pittsford, New York.

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    • 4/5
      Definitely worth reading. Got some ideas I'd like to implement
    • 5/5
      Interesting book - I enjoyed the wide array of studies and perspectives offered
    • 4/5
      Fascinating book, learned alot. I can only wish for such work place.