It’s a book about creating fun at work. As a business owner I know how important it is to have a happy and fun workplace for everyone. It will improve team performance and a better result. Important for business owners.
This is a great book for those who are thinking of starting their own business or evaluating their current performance.

Honest and in-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

I think “More of what you want to do,” was the line that drew me into wanting to read and review this book. I want to work for myself, in my discipline of choice, in marketing. In particular, in strategic marketing. My impression is that the author labels this person, “self-employed” and paints a rather gloomy picture of our work life. We can make a ‘good living”, we can ‘determine our own schedules, “ but he describes this as a risky strategy and thinks it best to, “evolve into a CEO.”

The CEO aspires and leads and ‘couldnt even consider doing all the work,’’ So the essence of this book is about moving from beyond being a specialist to being a generalist, in order to scale the business. Your role will comprise a ‘balancing act of promotion, delivery, sales and management.” If that epitomises “Fun At Work” for you, then this book will resonate more strongly.

It doesn’t for me.

Having spent fifteen years in a corporate environment, climbing the corporate ladder, I agree with many of the philosophies and advice included here, they are extremely helpful. Indeed if you are looking to lead a larger business, grow extensively and aspire to have others do the work, then statements such as, “Losing in business is not going to kill me… I will learn something and come back, and eventually win, “ may motivate and excite you.

But having spent a further twenty-two years running my own business, adapting and changing to the environment and competitive forces, I can only say that when I compare my corporate life to my current life. I am happier when I am refining my skills as a specialist, when I’m digging deeper and Increasing my overall expertise and leadership thinking. Its a model where I collaborate with others, where I work with clients, colleagues and suppliers who value my insights and I theirs. I love what I do and who I get to do it with. For me, that distils down to having “Fun At Work.”

So do you want to be self-employed or a CEO? Reading this book may well help you answer that question.

With many thanks to the author, the publishers, Matterhorn Business Development and NetGalley for my free copy to review.

A thorough, old-fashioned "Here's how it's done book, "Fun at Work" helps executives put together a job without missing pieces. Through his stories, illustrations, and lists. Winteregg shows how companies are led and managed.

I didn't find much new information here - more a review and summary of a lifetime of business experience, like something my dad would say. Winteregg's target is building a long-term dynasty, not he nimbleness of millennial startups. Therefore his book will appeal most to executives in traditional, longterm companies driven by profit and investor returns.

Fun at Work as the book title suggests that fun, or doing what pleases you is core. In Greg Winteregg's, the author shows his basic rules to run a successful business. From "If it's not fun, I'm not doing it", "Deciding to help a lot of people by doing something that you like. Then work hard!" to "All you need to do is figure out who you can help with your talents; then conquer your fear and START!"Chapters are built around 'philosophies' like Everyone, to some degree, must align with the overall purpose of the company, the concept of value and communication: basic concepts that are explained in an accessible, understandable format, but lacking any in-depth insight or a format that really sticks. It made me browsing the book instead of studying it page by page. Familiar stuff that indeed may increase fun at work as well, but primarily is meant to take baby steps into entrepreneurship or a management position. The book suggests exercises to apply the principles of success. And with every chapter comes an invitation to download these online.