We at Kudos have been thinking about this question quite a lot in the past year as we worked to develop the recognition and engagement programs on www.kudosnow.com - so I was interested to listen to Gary Vaynerchuk’s perspective during his recent Webinar given via GoToMeeting Corporate (http://www.gotomeeting.com) on “How to Win in the Thank You Economy?”

Here’s a small book I enjoyed: Revved was written by one of the authors of Fish [which we’ve already reviewed], and published in 2006 by McGraw-Hill. Harry Paul & Ross Reck, PhD follow a similar framework for their story using the example of an office worker looking for ways to change her impact on her environment, and with her staff. Whereas Fish focused on motivational principals, Revved moves further along this path with more practical advise, basically distilled down into these three steps:

1.     Win Them Over

2.     Blow Them Away

3.     Keep Them Revved

Hello there,

            A fundamental business principal we believe in here at Kudos is that a happy, engaged, employee makes a better employee, and the consequent workplace becomes a win-win environment, for employee & employer. A classic business book from 2000, Fish!  by Stephen C. Lundin, PhD, Harry Paul and John Christensen [Hyperion Books], builds on this core principal with their “Fish Philosophy” outlined in four basic concepts:

            For those of you unable to attend the recent Webinar hosted by David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Network, http://employeeengagement.ning.com/video/employee-engagement-on-the-go- on July 19th with Michael Kroth, co-author of the timely and serendipitous book: Managing the Mobile Workforce, http://www.managingthemobileworkforce.com/ Please have a read-through of my quick run-down of some highlights: