{"id":1143,"date":"2011-11-19T19:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2011-11-19T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T19:22:02","slug":"fish-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"FISH"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Several years ago I read an inspirational\u00a0book called Fish!<\/em>\u00a0which recounts the tale of a manager who is given the task of “sorting out” the worst department in\u00a0her organisation\u00a0– a department that everyone hated to deal with and that everyone hated to work in. The nickname was The Toxic Energy Dump.<\/p>\n

The story\u00a0retells how, by chance, she\u00a0stumbled across\u00a0help in the unlikeliest of\u00a0places – the Pike Place fish market in Seattle.\u00a0 There she learned four\u00a0principles that transformed her department and her\u00a0worklife:<\/p>\n

1. Work Made Fun Gets Done
\n2. Make Someone’s Day
\n3. Be\u00a0Fully Present
\n4. Choose Your Attitude<\/p>\n

\u00a0The take home lesson from Fish!<\/em> is that we make our work miserable by the way we behave towards each other.\u00a0\u00a0 So\u00a0if we are unhappy at work and we do nothing about our behaviour then\u00a0our misery will continue.<\/p>\n

This means we\u00a0can choose to\u00a0make work\u00a0enjoyable – and it is the responsibility of leaders at all levels to create the context for this to happen.\u00a0 Miserable staff\u00a0= poor leadership.\u00a0 And leadership starts with the leader.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n