Joy, Inc: How We Built a Workplace People Love

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Joy, Inc: How We Built a Workplace People Love
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Sheridan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:268
Dimensions(mm): Height 214,Width 140
Category/GenreBusiness and management
Office and workplace
ISBN/Barcode 9781591847120
ClassificationsDewey:658.314
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Portfolio
Publication Date 27 January 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

Every year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They make the trek not to learn about technology but to witness a radically different approach to company culture. CEO Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace miserable. With joy as the explicit goal, he and his team changed everything about how the company was run. The results blew away all expectations. Menlo has won numerous growth awards and was named an Inc. magazine audacious small company'.'

Author Biography

Richard Sheridan is CEO and cofounder of Menlo Innovations, which has won the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for six straight years and five revenue awards from Inc. magazine. He frequently speaks at business conferences and to major corporations such as Mercedes-Benz, Nike, and 3M. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reviews

"Joy Inc. is about a way of organizing work so logical, so effective, and so rewarding that you have to wonder why everyone doesn't do it."-Bo Burlingham, author, Small Giants