FUN IS GOOD

"An entertaining and educational book that reinforces Mr. Veeck's status not only as baseball's top marketer but also as a force to be noticed beyond the baselines."
-The Wall Street Journal

This rascally-looking guy is not Pete Williams either. He’s Mike Veeck, with whom Pete had the pleasure of writing the business motivational book Fun is Good: How to Create Joy and Passion in Your Workplace and Career. If you’re looking to jump-start your career, reinvent yourself, find more passion in your work, or just want to read some great baseball and life stories about Mike, his legendary dad (Bill Veeck), and Mike’s courageous daughter (Rebecca Veeck), check out Fun is Good.

Veeck reveals how anyone can bring more fun into their jobs and transform their workplace with a new attitude that embraces the idea of having more fun at work. As Veeck explains, fun inspires passion and creativity. It boosts morale, along with productivity and profitability for businesses. And it gives people a way to enjoy their lives both in and out the office. Veeck explains exactly how he’s created more joy in the workplace and offers first-hand accounts from successful business people who’ve benefited from the Fun is Good philosophy.

As Veeck explains, the demands of today’s workplace make it nearly impossible to enjoy our jobs. With greater pressure and less time, there’s little room to celebrate accomplishments or even get to know our co-workers. “Somehow, in our haste to seize the American dream, we’ve sucked the fun, passion, and creativity out of the workplace,” Veeck writes. “It doesn’t have to be that way.”

“Veeck, the son of legendary baseball owner Bill Veeck and transformer (with partner Bill Murray) of six minor-league teams into a $25 million business, delivers his savvy sales pitch on how to run any company based on his simple principles of bringing a positive attitude, high energy and finding a passion to deliver to the customer, even at the risk of making yourself look foolish. The rating: 5 stars out of 5.” -Los Angeles Daily News

“Fun is Good is a must-read for managers, as well as for workers getting squeezed out of pensions and fair wages.” -Chicago Sun-Times