patronise the playground several times in their lifetime. The fact is, people do like doing business with people who are fun.
A fun working environment is also more productive than a routine one. People who enjoy their work do create more and better ideas. Fun is contagious. Therefore, to have a really happy workforce, you got to do more than pass out bonuses and angpows. You need to make work fun. Science opens to us the book of nature, while laughter and fun open the fountain of human creativity.
Principle 2: Rest in order to rejuvenate
One of the most effective ways to improve mental and physical health is rest, in the corporate context, this means stability. Here, we are faced with a paradox whereby management needs to change and evolve in order to cope with rapid developments in a fast-changing business landscape. Yet, in the quest for growth-inducing changes, companies need rest and stability. Like a human body, a company needs rest for it to re-charge and repair itself. At the same time, it also needs to remain active in order to achieve optimal body functions and good health. Thus turnaround managers have to be masters in the art of preserving stability amid changes, and spurring changes in times of stability.
It is therefore abhorrent for companies to embrace a ‘hire-and-fire’ approach in their human resource policy. This is equivalent to bulimia, an illness in which there is a great and uncontrollable desire to eat, usually followed by induced vomiting in order not to gain weight. Such ‘corporate bulimia’ rips the fabric of corporate cohesion, self-interest replaces corporate interest as suspicions among staff increase and loyalty towards the company wanes.