Showing posts with label Andrew Tarvin. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Humor That Works by Andrew Tarvin

Humor That Works by Andrew TarvinI've been on a business reading kick for awhile. This book was an interesting difference. It's not the straight-up here's-how-to-work-better or a here's-how-to-manage-people book or here's-how-to-find-yourself-the-best-kind-of-job book. Instead, it's a look at how you can inject humor into the workplace from the world's first (self-proclaimed) humor engineer. His thoughts are that humor (the right kind of humor) can make a bad situation more bearable.
I wish there had been some more scientific studies backing up these claims (most were studies already published in other works). Most of the stories, especially in the early chapters, were personal stories about how Mr. Tarvin successfully used humor. Otherwise this was a very readable book which only sometimes reached a little too far in trying to also be humorous.

Three stars
This book came out April 1st
ARC kindly provided by publisher and NetGalley
Opinions are my own