That’s Chief Entertainment Officer
Smaller companies do fun better. We got that straight from the skating matador and dozens of his CEO colleagues.
From: Inc. Magazine, | By: Leigh Buchanan
George Kase’s 2007 new year’s resolution sounded self-indulgent, like giving up dieting for Lent. “I will have more fun with my employees,” pledged Kase, president of CCFC Advertising, a $20 million Chicago company. (That’s him to the left, with the bird, surrounded by some of the people who work for him.)He wasn’t being frivolous. Kase, who co-founded CCFC 20 years ago, assumed the top slot in 2005 when one of his partners moved into strategic planning. The previous leader, who Kase describes as “a very business-by-the-book guy,” had presided over a work-hard-play-hardly culture. Kase worried that employees were keeping late hours, rarely glancing up from their computer screens.First things first: He enlisted freelance help and insisted the overburdened talk to him about getting relief. Second things second: He made serious plans to inject good times into the job. “I thought, we have to put fun on the agenda,” says Kase. “I can’t leave it to happen organically because it won’t.”So Kase brought in some rubber chickens and a bag of plastic dinosaurs. He took the staff to a racetrack, held a winetasting and a potluck with exotic foreign dishes and chili dogs. He started asking everyone: What should we do? Where should we go? “I am thinking we might institute a duty roster where folks get to create and execute the fun on a rotating basis,” says Kase. “Requirements would be that everybody gets to have the fun, it can’t cost a lot, and it cannot impair the senses–too much–or be illegal.”
Kase is not the only leader trying to reverse a fun deficit. Many companies start out fun, but the carefree ethos is tough to sustain through growth, hard times, and the constant flux of personalities. Too often, fun becomes something employees have everywhere but here. When once a year the leader pops out of her office and hollers “Frisbee toss!” the effort feels forced.
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