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Play at Work

Author : Adam L. Penenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101623020
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Play at Work written by Adam L. Penenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do games hold the secret to better productivity? If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft while the world collectively devotes about 5 million hours per day to Angry Birds. A colossal waste of time? Perhaps. But what if we could tap into all the energy, engagement, and brainpower that people are already expending and use it for more creative and valuable pursuits? Harnessing the power of games sounds like a New-Age fantasy, or at least a fad that’s only for hip start-ups run by millennials in Silicon Valley. But according to Adam L. Penenberg, the use of smart game design in the workplace and beyond is taking hold in every sector of the economy, and the companies that apply it are witnessing unprecedented results. “Gamification” isn’t just for consumers chasing reward points anymore. It’s transforming, well, just about everything. Penenberg explores how, by understanding the way successful games are designed, we can apply them to become more efficient, come up with new ideas, and achieve even the most daunting goals. He shows how game mechanics are being applied to make employees happier and more motivated, improve worker safety, create better products, and improve customer service. For example, Microsoft has transformed an essential but mind-numbing task—debugging software—into a game by having employees compete and collaborate to find more glitches in less time. Meanwhile, Local Motors, an independent automaker based in Arizona, crowdsources designs from car enthusiasts all over the world by having them compete for money and recognition within the community. As a result, the company was able to bring a cutting-edge vehicle to market in less time and at far less cost than the Big Three automakers. These are just two examples of companies that have tapped the characteristics that make games so addictive and satisfying. Penenberg also takes us inside organizations that have introduced play at work to train surgeons, aid in physical therapy, translate the Internet, solve vexing scientific riddles, and digitize books from the nineteenth century. Drawing on the latest brain science as well as his firsthand reporting from these cutting-edge companies, Penenberg offers a powerful solution for businesses and organizations of all stripes and sizes.

The Gamification of Work

Author : Emmanuelle Savignac
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1786301237
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Gamification of Work written by Emmanuelle Savignac and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the traditional opposition between play and work, games and their structure are increasingly used in workplaces. This phenomenon of using game elements or mechanisms in other contexts than games is named “gamification”. In workplaces, the gamification is supposed to abolish the separation between work and leisure or between constraint and pleasure. This book reviews a century of game theories in the social sciences and analyzes the uses of games in workplaces. We critically question the explicit functions (learning, experimentation…) which are supposed to be conveyed by games. Finally, we show that game, understood as a structure, could have efficient social functions in the workplace.

The Game of Work

Author : Charles A. Coonradt
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423601579
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Game of Work written by Charles A. Coonradt and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original printing in 1984, The Game of Work helped thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of managers and employees experience increased job enjoyment while producing extraordinary results. The Game of Work examines the question of why people work harder at sports and recreation than they do on the job and uses these as metaphors for inspirational leadership strategies. Corporations worldwide have enjoyed the increased productivity, employee satisfaction and motivation, and bottom-line profits by implementing the concepts taught in The Game of Work. As qualified people become increasingly difficult to attract and retain, the implementation of the five principles in this book is the one key factor to improving results, retention, and recruitment. Five principles of The Game of Work: Frequent feedback; Better scorekeeping; Clearly defined goals; Consistent coaching; A higher degree of personal choice.

Games At Work

Author : Mauricio Goldstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470262001
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Games At Work written by Mauricio Goldstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS LONG AS PEOPLE HAVE WORKED together, they have engaged in political games. Motivated by short-term gains promotions, funding for a project, budget increases, status with the boss people misuse their time and energy. Today, when many organizations are fighting for their lives and scarce resources there is increased stress and anxiety, and employees are engaging in games more intensely than ever before. Organizational experts Mauricio Goldstein and Philip Read argue that office games those manipulative behaviors that distract employees from achieving their mission are both conscious and unconscious. They can and should be effectively minimized. In Games at Work, the authors offer tools to diagnose the most common games that people play and outline a three-step process to effectively deal with them. Some of the games they explore include: GOTCHA: identifying and communicating others' mistakes in an effort to win points from higher-ups GOSSIP: engaging in the classic rumor mill to gain political advantage SANDBAGGING: purposely low-balling sales forecasts as a negotiating ploy GRAY ZONE: deliberately fostering ambiguity or lack of clarity about who should do what to avoid accountability Filled with real-world, entertaining examples of games in action, Games at Work is an invaluable resource for managers and all professionals who want to substitute straight talk for games in their organizations and boost productivity, commitment, innovation, and ultimately the bottom line.

The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration

Author : Mary Scannell
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071743669
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration written by Mary Scannell and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make workplace conflict resolution a game that EVERYBODY wins! Recent studies show that typical managers devote more than a quarter of their time to resolving coworker disputes. The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games offers a wealth of activities and exercises for groups of any size that let you manage your business (instead of managing personalities). Part of the acclaimed, bestselling Big Books series, this guide offers step-by-step directions and customizable tools that empower you to heal rifts arising from ineffective communication, cultural/personality clashes, and other specific problem areas—before they affect your organization's bottom line. Let The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games help you to: Build trust Foster morale Improve processes Overcome diversity issues And more Dozens of physical and verbal activities help create a safe environment for teams to explore several common forms of conflict—and their resolution. Inexpensive, easy-to-implement, and proved effective at Fortune 500 corporations and mom-and-pop businesses alike, the exercises in The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games delivers everything you need to make your workplace more efficient, effective, and engaged.

How Do Video Games Work?

Author : L. E. Carmichael
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 1467780790
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book How Do Video Games Work? written by L. E. Carmichael and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Young readers will love this exciting, in-depth yet accessible look at how video games work and how they are made."--

Count Me in

Author : Mark Collard
Publisher : Playmeo Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780934387309
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Count Me in written by Mark Collard and published by Playmeo Pty Limited. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains ice-breakers, energisers, interactive games and team events - in total more then 140 activities, each accompanied with at least one variation. A veritable treasure chest of programming ideas, perfect for any group of people, especially if there are a lot of them.

How Con Games Work

Author : M. Allen Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806510149
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book How Con Games Work written by M. Allen Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't learn about the con artist the hard way: With "How Con Games Work, " spot him and his tricks before he can relieve you of your cash!

People Games at Work

Author : Min Liu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537139968
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book People Games at Work written by Min Liu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF AMAZON #1 CATEGORY BESTSELLER "PEOPLE GAMES: THE TEN MOST COMMON MIND GAMES AND POWER PLAYS PEOPLE PLAY"... These days, getting ahead in the workplace and keeping your job is hard enough as it is, but power plays and mind games in the workplace and workplace bullying can downright make going to work unbearable. Most people are in the dark about how to address these insidious maneuvers and deal with unsavory characters at work. However, it doesn't have to be this way for you anymore... INTRODUCING "PEOPLE GAMES AT WORK: POWER PLAYS, MIND GAMES, AND WORKPLACE BULLYING": If you are sick and tired of workplace bullying and/or being taken advantage of at work by manipulative people, PEOPLE GAMES AT WORK will enlighten you on: (1) HOW TO SPOT the most common power plays and mind games that are played in the workplace, such as gossip/disinformation and threats/putdowns, and how to prevent such power plays and mind games from occurring in the first place; (2) A SIX-STEP method for dealing with power plays, mind games, and workplace bullying; (3) The FIVE main strategies for combating workplace bullying (and which ones work best and which ones completely fail to achieve results); and (4) An EASY THREE-PART FORMULA for developing verbal responses to workplace bullying that stop workplace bullies in their tracks. Get back your self-confidence, self-esteem, and thrive again at work. Banish your tormenters at work for good. And, make work pleasant and pleasurable once again! ***LIMITED TIME ONLY: SPECIAL BONUS INCLUDED ("THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO UPWARD INFLUENCE TACTICS", A $49.99 VALUE AND NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE ANYWHERE ELSE)!! THIS GUIDE WILL TEACH YOU THE METHODS SAVVY PEOPLE UTILIZE TO IMPRESS UPPER MANAGEMENT. DON'T MISS IT!

The Infinite Game

Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735213526
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Game written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.

Total Engagement

Author : Byron Reeves
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422155137
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Total Engagement written by Byron Reeves and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the workplace be more productive by including avatars, three-dimensional environments, and participant-driven outcomes? This grounded and thought-provoking book by Byron Reeves and Leighton Read proves that it is not only possible, it is inevitable. Implementing components of multiplayer computer games in the workplace will address a host of age-old problems. Games can not only stem boredom and decrease turnover, but also enhancee collaboration and encourage creative leadership. Games require extraordinary teamwork, elaborate data analysis and strategy, recruitment and retention of top players, and quick decision making. Recreating some elements of games - such as positioning tasks within stories, creating internal economies, and implementing participant-driven communication systems - can not only boost employee engagement but overall productivity. Of course, the strong psychological power of games can have both positive and negative consequences for the workplace. That's why it's important to put them into practice correctly from the beginning - and Reeves and Read explain how by showing which good design principles are a powerful antidote to the addictive and stress-inducing potential of games. Supported by specific case studies and years of research, Total Engagement will completely change the way you view both work and play.

The Fun Factor

Author : Carolyn Greenwich
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Spanish Imports
ISBN 13 : 9780074704349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Fun Factor written by Carolyn Greenwich and published by McGraw-Hill/Spanish Imports. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let consultant Carolyn Greenwich show you how to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity--by making work fun for your employees! This book presents easy-to-follow instructions for 155 games, contests, and team-building activities that managers can use to inspire and motivate their employees on

Monster Hunter International

Author : Larry Correia
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618247344
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Monster Hunter International written by Larry Correia and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Monster Hunter International. Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. It's actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Lexile Score: 710

Resonant Games

Author : Eric Klopfer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262037807
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Resonant Games written by Eric Klopfer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives. Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners. This book suggests another approach, offering a guide to designing games that integrates content and play and creates learning experiences that connect to many areas of learners' lives. These games are not gamified workbooks but are embedded in a long-form experience of exploration, discovery, and collaboration that takes into consideration the learning environment. Resonant Games describes twenty essential principles for designing games that offer this kind of deeper learning experience, presenting them in connection with five games or collections of games developed at MIT's educational game research lab, the Education Arcade. Each of the games—which range from Vanished, an alternate reality game for middle schoolers promoting STEM careers, to Ubiquitous Bio, a series of casual mobile games for high school biology students—has a different story, but all spring from these fundamental assumptions: honor the whole learner, as a full human being, not an empty vessel awaiting a fill-up; honor the sociality of learning and play; honor a deep connection between the content and the game; and honor the learning context—most often the public school classroom, but also beyond the classroom.

Fair Play

Author : Eve Rodsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525541942
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Fair Play written by Eve Rodsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner. “Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.

Innovation Games

Author : Luke Hohmann
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132702223
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Innovation Games written by Luke Hohmann and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation Through Understandingsm The toughest part of innovation? Accurately predicting what customers want, need, and will pay for. Even if you ask them, they often can’t explain what they want. Now, there’s a breakthrough solution: Innovation Games. Drawing on his software product strategy and product management consulting experience, Luke Hohmann has created twelve games that help you uncover your customers’ true, hidden needs and desires. You’ll learn what each game will accomplish, why it works, and how to play it with customers. Then, Hohmann shows how to integrate the results into your product development processes, helping you focus your efforts, reduce your costs, accelerate time to market, and deliver the right solutions, right from the start. Learn how your customers define success Discover what customers don’t like about your offerings Uncover unspoken needs and breakthrough opportunities Understand where your offerings fit into your customers’ operations Clarify exactly how and when customers will use your product or service Deliver the right new features, and make better strategy decisions Increase empathy for the customers’ experience within your organization Improve the effectiveness of the sales and service organizations Identify your most effective marketing messages and sellable features Innovation Games will be indispensable for anyone who wants to drive more successful, customer-focused product development: product and R&D managers, CTOs and development leaders, marketers, and senior business executives alike.

Game Work

Author : Ken S. McAllister
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817314180
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Game Work written by Ken S. McAllister and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video and computer games in their cultural contexts. As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of political, social, economic, rhetorical, and aesthetic analysis. Ken McAllister notes in his introduction to Game Work that, even though games are essentially impractical, they are nevertheless important mediating agents for the broad exercise of socio-political power. In considering how the languages, images, gestures, and sounds of video games influence those who play them, McAllister highlights the ways in which ideology is coded into games. Computer games, he argues, have transformative effects on the consciousness of players, like poetry, fiction, journalism, and film, but the implications of these transformations are not always clear. Games can work to maintain the status quo or celebrate liberation or tolerate enslavement, and they can conjure feelings of hope or despair, assent or dissent, clarity or confusion. Overall, by making and managing meanings, computer games—and the work they involve and the industry they spring from—are also negotiating power. This book sets out a method for "recollecting" some of the diverse and copious influences on computer games and the industry they have spawned. Specifically written for use in computer game theory classes, advanced media studies, and communications courses, Game Work will also be welcome by computer gamers and designers. Ken S. McAllister is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona and Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative, a research collective that studies, teaches with, and builds computer games.