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 tennisvivid 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 organizationregardless of its size, budgets, or ambitionsinto an extraordinary workplace.
practical, engaging, and REALLY enjoyable to read This book takes an incredible amount of recent research in several different areas of psychology, recaps it in a style that’s really easy for anyone to understand, and talks directly about how these findings can impact us all at work. The topics cover just about every work-related angle you can think of, including office space design, navigating job interviews, the benefits of office relationships, and even why other things we DON’T always associate with success at work (like sleeping, working…
An engaging, intelligent read. Ron Friedman did us all a favor here. He synthesizes a massive index of academic research, boils it all down into digestible nuggets, and helps us piece together some really interesting insights. What’s more, he shows us why the research matters: It’s one thing to know the research results, it’s another thing to help the reader understand what the results mean. And that’s what Friedman did here. And don’t let the title fool you – this book is not just for managers. This is a book that nearly…
This is my favorite book of the year This is my favorite book of the year! It’s packed with science-based guidance on how to be a better employee, a better manager, and a better business owner. I’m the founder and CEO of a relatively new company, and this book is now my go-to guide for how to build my business in the most effective way possible. I’m a behavioral scientist myself, with a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, so I certainly appreciate the value of applied research, but the truth is that I honestly don’t have the…