Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3065479 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Author
Work Like Your Dog was a joy to write.
Work Like Your Dog was a joy to write and I hope that readers will find it a joyful, fun, and helpful book to read. All of us work -- either on our jobs or in our homes -- and if we can learn to integrate our work and our play, then our lives can be happier and more fulfilling. This book is a reminder not to take ourselves too seriously. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as Matt and I enjoyed the process of writing it. Regardless of your work, don't forget to work like your dog! Happy Reading, Luke

Customer Reviews

Fabulously enteraining AND educational.
Do you want to improve YOUR working environment? Buy a copy of this for your CEO or manager. Have a singing messenger deliver it, and watch your place of business turn into a place you WANT to go to. These examples and stories are useful even outside the workplace...in your everyday life. In an period of low unemployment, where employee retention is difficult, these ideas can give your company an edge on your competition.

This is a worthwhile manual on making work fun.
If you ever get the chance to share an office with Matt Weinstein or Luke Barber, don't pass it up. These coauthors, respectively a management consultant and a philosophy professor, tell hilarious stories and exhibit both fiendish creativity and charming warmth in this worthwhile manual of making work fun. The anecdotes are superb. When Barber recounts spending a summer moonlighting from his job as a college professor by working as a yardman, it's as funny as a classic "I Love Lucy" episode. When a con artist scams one of the authors out of $110, you feel for him as deeply as if your own cash had been lost. The lessons live up to the packaging. They're simple, effective, and somehow surprising. Sure, work would be a blast if your company hired a masseuse to roam the cubicles giving out free neck and shoulder rubs. And if your boss gave you $100, took you to the mall, and told you not to report back to the office until you had spent it all, Monday would definitely look less black. Why has no one suggested this before? The authors provide far more than fifty ways to make work fun. They propose an entirely new mind-set about work, one that makes it less about earning a living and more about simply living.

What a great book!
What a great book! Matt and Luke spotlight the inanities of life and how your life needs to have more of them. They provide a clear reminder not to take yourself, your circumstances, or your life too seriously. It's the next best thing to having your own personal therapist help you keep things in perspective -- and a lot cheaper as well!!" -- Bob Nelson, President Nelson Motivation, Inc. Author 1001 Ways to Reward Employees & 1001 Ways to Energize Employees