The Red Rubber Ball at Work [Kate and Sam's Reviews]
Sam and Kate were both charmed by Kevin Carroll's The Red Rubber Ball at Work.
Sam enjoyed the sense of the play (and the quick read):
Red Rubber Ball at Work is a sweet little read that evokes memories of childhood and makes the reader crave a workplace that she enjoyed as much as the people profiled in the book. It’s a quick, snippety read which is heavily anecdotal but one which allows the reader to feel as though they are reading a particularly astute advice column.
And Kate was inspired by the stories of innovation and by the design of the book itself:
Building on the success of his Rules of the Red Rubber Ball, Carroll's The Red Rubber Ball at Work is a collection of biographic vignettes. Subjects include people like Seth Godin, Irene Au of Google, Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes, Majora Carter (oh, talk about inspiration - watch Majora at TED in 2006. Amazing!!) and Vicki Phillips of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Each vignette describes both a childhood moment at play that crystallized a key idea or philosophy and then the subject's current vocation and how they bring this playful attitude to the work environment.
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- McGraw Hill | Chapters.ca | Amazon.com
- ISBN-10: 0071599444
- ISBN-13: 978-0071599443
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