Advantages: A delightfully told educative motivational business parable. Disadvantages: Mary Jane is not representative of all managers!
...at least in part. Fish! is a fictional Business Parable that brings an injection of hope into the workplace for those who need it and receive its message.
Mary Jane Ramirez is the heroine of the story, a competent manager who is promoted and transferred to run a notorious failing operations group within First Guarantee Financial where the staff are all suffering from one form or another of bureaucratic malaise. Sensing an urgent need to transform ... ...a word of warning. Fish! has spawned a number of publications which are not all as inspirational in my estimation as the original. I was particularly disappointed when I obtained “Fish! tales” a book which collates a number of real-life examples of putting the Fish! philosophy into practice in different contexts. While “Fish!” remains on my bookshelf, my copy of “Fish! Tales” went to a boot sale last year. Fish! is published by Hodder & Stoughton. ...
Discerna 09.04.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Fish! - Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen
Advantages: Interesting, captivating and very motivational Disadvantages: N/A
This book is a must read if you feel you are stuck in rut with your career. It is both inspiring and extremely interesting.
Fish is extremely well writen and really draws you into the story. As a business tool it is very motivating and will help you identify problems and come up with ways of sorting them. Im not a great reader but I have read fish twice in the three months since i bought it, even if you are not so interested in the work and motivation ...
mrtoffee 17.10.2007
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