Staff Recruitment, Retention, and Training: Strategies for Community Human Services Agencies Brookes Publishing Co ( July, 2004 ) Book Our Price : £ 23.50 Prices subject to change. Not yet published

After e-Business comes...f-Business

Or Funky Business, to be more precise It is full of hyperbole, is at times intensely irritating, and includes nothing I did not know before...but it is packed with great stories, examples, jokes and for a pair of assistant professors from Stockholm its a very entertaining read. They get it completely... Its a pre-bust book which still makes sense post bust. The points they make about knowing who you are and what you do (at the individual and organisational level) are also spot on.

a manifesto for the human economy

A really stimulating book this, and I think that some of my fellow reviewers may be missing the point here. This book is all about immersing yourself in the underlying spirit of the human economy - think of it as the new manifesto for companies and individuals who can compete on being different and compete on economies of soul. What it is not is a bandwagon book about the dot com "new economy". That may or may not have come off the rails, but if you actually read this book (and its not hard - this is engaging stuff) youll find out that it doesnt talk about hyped dot coms at all. This is about diversity, creativity and competing on personality. Like the Cluetrain Manifesto and No Logo, this wont deliver a big checklist, but it will make you think afresh about business. Funky Business might even just make you feel excited about business life again. Whens the last time a business book made you feel that?

So bad its a classic

This is not your typical business book, its fun and funky just like work is, er only most work isnt fun and funky. Thats kinda the problem with this book. Its writing about the way wed all love our work to be but unfortunately for 99% of people 99% of the time it isnt. Rewarding, yes, satisfying, yes, enjoyable, quite possibly but fun and funky...? My guess is that the authors visited lots of dotcoms during the boom and saw lots of chillout rooms and fussball tables and thought "WOW, this is funky". What they probably didnt notice is that (a) very few people had time to use them, (b) they certainly arent using them now! However on the plus (?) side the book doesnt tax the old grey matter and its got lots of pretty pictures.