Enduring an over-serious workplace can be employment fatal to most human beings involved in the fine art of making a living.

Dour dispositions, dive-bomb professional development, and disgustingly disturbing days provide people problematically putrid personal positions.
Thank the good Lord, authors Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas created Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)
We all better hope this book is funny. Otherwise, that crazy-long title will be a total lie about the rest of the book.
In this serious business book, authors Aaker and Bagdonas approach the unusual subject of using humor in the workplace to harness a powerful series of employee results. According to these ladies who teach “Humor: Serious Business,” at Stanford Graduate School of Business, using humor effectively in the workplace can substantially impact performance, unleash bound employee creativity, enhance competence and confidence, along with improving overall performance.
Sounds good to me.
Aaker and Bagdonas teach that proper use of humor is vastly underleveraged and one of the most useful business tools in use today.
Though this fascinating book sounds like a stand-up comedy routine, its pages are stuffed with down-to-earth, downright serious research, and heavily-founded business facts.
Humor, Seriously is one of those books that, in my humble but extremely busy opinion, is better on audio; simply because it’s far easier to digest large pieces of business-altering information, regardless of its seriousness, in bits at a time and while on the run.
Most business people I know commute, attempt exercise, wait, wait, and wait some more, regardless of where they happen to be at any given time, and certainly lack the energy to stay awake day and night for weeks on end trying to boost their office situation. Sometimes, there isn’t enough caffeine in existence to enable that level of comprehension and learning.
Good there an audio copy of Humor, Seriously ready for download 24-hours a day.
But as a black-and-white traditional paper shelf-topper, Humor, Seriously has its place for future reference and reminder, which is one of the tools I use to refresh my memory after waking up from hibernation, or perhaps, too much caffeine.
Humor, Seriously is an exceptional book containing Aaker and Bagdonas’ full theory of how to use the often workplace-elusive skill to your full future advantage.
Here’s my problem with this book: I’d love to use humor with my employee pool. I’d love to unleash creativity, impel stronger work, boost productivity. And obviously, make a lot more money. But, to attain that dreamy goal, I need a business.
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Happy are those who respect the Lord and obey him. You will enjoy what you work for, and you will be blessed with good things. Psalm 128: 1-2
Young adult fantasy offers good message that readers can take badly
It’s 1903. Twelve children from around the world are taken from their homes and deposited into an isolated Ohio farmhouse by the mysterious “Men in Black.”
Along with Miss Bliss, their teacher, this team of youths who don’t seem to have trouble overcoming a multitude of language communication problems, the fact that they are strangely and unexpectedly transferred from their beds in 1903 New Dehli, Africa, England, Canada, and New York, and into a different country, team up to find the reason their parents seemingly prepared them for this event, then, after the kidnapping, disappeared from their lives.
Good thing all 12 of these children are the offspring of the globe’s finest turn-of-the-century scientific minds.
Soon the children are presented with a series of object questions they can’t answer, the challenge to find out why the Men in Black want them so badly, and to what location their parents have gone or been taken.
Complicated, improbable and a sure-fire way to teach children that being kidnapped is a chance for them to become superheroes, if watched with the right mindset, this fiction novel is a wonderful escape to non-reality and into the world of kid genius’ ability to problem-solve and save the day.
Other than the obvious concern about this novel being misinterpreted by child readers to let their stranger danger guard down and get themselves killed, this story offers a lot of fun.
Its ridiculous premise has “Disney” movie written all over it and has the potential for another 2-hour getaway for kids of all ages.
It’s a darn shame we have to interpret this unsafe and mentally sickening world as it is today. Fantasy kid scientist dream teams seem to be a lot better.
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Happy are those who respect the Lord and obey him. You will enjoy what you work for, and you will be blessed with good things. Psalm 128: 1-2
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