Friday, 22 May 2015

fish philosophy and the motivational mafia

How to motivate your workers is a key aspect of HR - or 'human resources' - or the 'personnel department'...
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A big idea around at the moment is 'fish! philosophy:
FISH! Philosophy :: Home



Fish! Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


fish philosophy - YouTube

Not everyone agrees:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2006


More On (Moron?) Fish! Philosophy

I finally bit the bullet and ordered a $3 used copy of the Fish! Philosophy book from Amazon. I'm about as infuriated as I expected to be.

The reason for burnout in most workplaces is that management has deliberately and systematically downsized staffing levels, trying to get more and more work out of fewer and fewer people. The management of the average corporation manufactures burned out employees like Carter manufactures liver pills. Through Fish! Philosophy, management attempts to deal with burnout entirely through cheerleading and slogans--Stakhanovism--without having to increase staffing levels or pay, or otherwise alter its own contribution to the problem. Fish! Philosophy, at its core, is an attempt to get something for nothing.
Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism: More On (Moron?) Fish! Philosophy

This Fish! thing could be as bad as the Cheese thing:

And surprise, surprise, surprise: there's an entire Motivational Mafia out there focused on getting people to love Big Brother and think of their jobs as the center of their life. I don't think it's gonna happen, though. People will always wake up, like Winston Smith, with that instinctive groan at the prospect of dragging themselves into that shithole again.

And speaking of Ken Blanchard.... He also wrote the Preface to Who Moved My Cheese?. And one of the Fish! Philosophy coauthors of is a vice president in the Blanchard organization. So apparently there's an interlocking directorate in the Motivational Mafia.

Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism: More On (Moron?) Fish! Philosophy

But some people don't seem to get the point:
Need some Motivation? Join the family: MotivationMafia.com

See also:
Who Moved My Cheese? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Who moved my cheese? Full Movie - YouTube
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