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Rituals for Work: 50 Ways to Create Engagement, Shared Purpose, and a Culture that Can Adapt to Change Paperback – April 9 2019

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Experience the transformative power of creative rituals in the workplace

Rituals for Work shows us how creative rituals can make our personal and business lives more meaningful and rewarding. Rituals are powerful tools: they reinforce good habits, motivate personal and professional achievement, create a common bond between co-workers and build shared values; they can transform an organization’s culture and provide a foundation to achieve common goals. Focusing on real-world examples, this book takes a practical approach to the power and benefits of workplace rituals. This insightful guide presents 50 creative rituals, from business and management to design and personal development. Specific case studies highlight the use of rituals and their positive impact to real-world organizations, while vivid visuals allow us to feel their energy and emotion.

A ritual is only effective when its purpose is clearly defined. This book goes beyond simple analysis to provide actual recipes for individual rituals designed to promote specific habits, change negative behaviors, and instill values. Each ritual can be adapted to achieve a multitude of goals and tailored to fit your organization or team’s specific needs.

● Change behaviors, form positive habits, and assign meaning to shared goals

● Build shared values, foster innovation, and encourage strong teamwork

● Deal with conflicts effectively and engage others to work on resolutions

● Learn the fundamental concepts of ritual-building and share your knowledge with your team

An informative and inspirational resource for executives, managers, team leaders, and employees of every level, Rituals for Work provides a blueprint for building a culture of engagement, innovation, and shared purpose for organizations of all sizes, across industries.

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April 9 2019
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ENHANCE YOUR PERSONAL AND WORK LIVES THROUGH CREATIVE RITUALS

Rituals for Work is an accessible guide to the rituals that individuals, teams, and organizations can use to make their work lives more meaningful. Drawing from empirical research and rich examples from industry, the authors show how rituals can spark creativity, get to flow, deal with conflict and failures, and build a culture of innovation.

"At IDEO and the Stanford d.school we use ritual as a tool to get teams in sync emotionally and mentally. Margaret and Kursat's book is full of ready to go rituals that will tune your teams and might just become your secret weapon."
—DAVID KELLEY, founder and chairman of IDEO, founder of the d.school at Stanford University, and bestselling author of Creative Confidence

"Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan have created and curated a whole new set of powerful work rituals for the 21st Century. Playful and profound, these rituals will help you and your organization create meaning, tackle challenges and live your values."
—AYSE BIRSEL, Author of Design the Life You Love

"This wonderful book helps us to be more present in your personal and work life. Margaret and Kursat offer a variety of rituals to mark and honor individual and organizational events and to signify new ones. This book belongs on your shelf if you do collaborative work, or if you lead, manage and direct teams on a day-to-day basis."
—JODI FORLIZZI, Professor and Director of Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

"Visual, lively, and timely. Rituals for Work reminds us of the potential for creativity to transform how we work, and our ability to build the kinds of organizations that we want to be a part of. Kursat and Margaret open up a conversation that we don't have that often — how we can create better work lives for ourselves, whether it's as a CEO, a middle manager, or an entry-level employee."
—MARSHALL GOLDSMITH is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Rituals For Work is practical, fun, and timeless. Ozenc and Hagan's compelling blend of stories, drawings, advice, and proven tools can help any leader develop and instill effective workplace rituals. If you are looking for better ways to implement change, innovate, build closer bonds, or reduce destructive conflict, you need this relentlessly useful gem."
—ROBERT I. SUTTON, Stanford Professor and author of national bestsellers, including The No Asshole Rule and (with Huggy Rao) Scaling Up Excellence

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ENHANCE YOUR PERSONAL AND WORK LIVES THROUGH CREATIVE RITUALS

Rituals for Work is an accessible guide to the rituals that individuals, teams, and organizations can use to make their work lives more meaningful. Drawing from empirical research and rich examples from industry, the authors show how rituals can spark creativity, get to flow, deal with conflict and failures, and build a culture of innovation.

"At IDEO and the Stanford d.school we use ritual as a tool to get teams in sync emotionally and mentally. Margaret and Kursat's book is full of ready to go rituals that will tune your teams and might just become your secret weapon."
—DAVID KELLEY, founder and chairman of IDEO, founder of the d.school at Stanford University, and bestselling author of Creative Confidence

"Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan have created and curated a whole new set of powerful work rituals for the 21st Century. Playful and profound, these rituals will help you and your organization create meaning, tackle challenges and live your values."
—AYSE BIRSEL, Author of Design the Life You Love

"This wonderful book helps us to be more present in your personal and work life. Margaret and Kursat offer a variety of rituals to mark and honor individual and organizational events and to signify new ones. This book belongs on your shelf if you do collaborative work, or if you lead, manage and direct teams on a day-to-day basis."
—JODI FORLIZZI, Professor and Director of Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

"Visual, lively, and timely. Rituals for Work reminds us of the potential for creativity to transform how we work, and our ability to build the kinds of organizations that we want to be a part of. Kursat and Margaret open up a conversation that we don't have that often — how we can create better work lives for ourselves, whether it's as a CEO, a middle manager, or an entry-level employee."
—MARSHALL GOLDSMITH is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Rituals For Work is practical, fun, and timeless. Ozenc and Hagan's compelling blend of stories, drawings, advice, and proven tools can help any leader develop and instill effective workplace rituals. If you are looking for better ways to implement change, innovate, build closer bonds, or reduce destructive conflict, you need this relentlessly useful gem."
—ROBERT I. SUTTON, Stanford Professor and author of national bestsellers, including The No Asshole Rule and (with Huggy Rao) Scaling Up Excellence

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (April 9 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119530784
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119530787
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 558 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.73 x 1.57 x 23.5 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #194,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #141 in Human Resources Textbooks
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Kursat Ozenc
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Kürsat Özenç is a designer, educator, and strategist. He teaches design at the Stanford d.school and leads the Ritual Design Lab initiative, where he runs experiments with students and partner organizations on personal, team & human-robot rituals. He has a keen interest in behavior design, particularly rituals. His work on rituals has appeared on Atlantic, Fast Company, 99U Magazines, and the Canadian Public Radio. He holds a Ph.D. in Design from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Margaret Hagan is a lawyer and designer. She directs the Legal Design Lab at Stanford University, that focuses on the research and design of a more accessible, fair, and engaging legal system, especially for people without lawyers. She has a JD from Stanford, a DPhil from Queen's University Belfast, a Master's from Central European University in Budapest, and an AB from University of Chicago.
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Erman Akyol PhD

Creative Rituals

Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2019

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Rituals for Work is about behavioural patterns and habits in a business environment and how they can be used to create a productive culture. Hagan and Ozenc contribute to the search for new directions for design and remind us that rituals can also be about creation and change. The authors suggest new habits and motivations increase success for people sharing similar goals and values. It is a wonderfully easy read that makes these rituals simple to follow. Great illustrations offer further help. You can find interviews of proficients with various backgrounds and how rituals empower them throughout their careers. In it, you'll find all kinds of useful rituals for your work environment such as how to start a creative day by drawing or having idea parties with your colleagues. They remind us that the simplest things are still the most valuable. Any situation can be a matter of design and can contribute to your creative environment. They open a door for you to create your own rituals in business and other aspects of your life.

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Erin Murphy

This book is awesome!!!!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2019

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It just arrived today and I have already read through it all. But I think I'll be coming back to it again, and again, and again! It's so practical, so many great ideas!! And super fun to read!!!!! I highly recommend to anyone who is interested in getting their creative juices flowing, improving their team's cohesiveness and performance, or managing org change. I plan to use some of the rituals/ games in teaching. Pretty much anyone who manages people or has a project they need to complete should have this book on their desk.

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Playful, practical guide for bringing meaning, creativity, and connection to your work

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019

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Full disclosure: I have met the authors (once) over the ritual of grabbing coffee together. But even so, I wasn't sure what to expect when I pre-ordered their book. The concept of "rituals for work" can sound vague at best and conjure up cultish connotations to the uninitiated. But I use and dream up rituals all the time in my work with leaders, teams, and companies. (You may too, even if you don't use that word.) As Ozenc and Hagan write, "Rituals have special power to bond people together and to make sense of their world." I think they've done a magnificent job of finding and explaining 50 top-notch ways to bring more meaning, clarity, creativity, and connection to your work. I love how they've categorized the rituals (Creativity & Innovation, Performance & Flow, Conflict & Resilience, Community, Change & Transition) and the fact that they've included activities that range from solo practices to team exercises to rituals that can be used for an entire organization. The accessible writing and playful illustrations make this an easy book to pull off the shelf and jump right into. I expect to do so quite a bit in the coming years. Think of it as a cookbook for your culture — something with great recipes to adopt and adapt.

10 people found this helpful

KCB

Great book with good ideas and fun drawings

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2019

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The cover of the book itself hits that this a fun book to read. I really liked how the book is organized, and how different types of contents (interviews, lists, examples etc,) are mixed with very cute figures so that you never get bored and go through the book very quickly. Each ritual is explained very clearly with great examples. I find it very useful how the authors explain the use cases and the way each ritual can be applied at different levels (individual, team, organization). The interviews in the book provide more context about some of the rituals by explaining the source, how it was applied etc. Although the book is intended to improve productivity at work, I think some of the rituals can definitely be applied outside work. I have even tried some of them with my kids. Overall, I think this is a great reference book to get ideas bout rituals to improve productivity in different fun ways.

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If you work, this book is for you

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2019

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Once purchased, this book flew around our office with lightning speed. As other reviewers have noted, there are helpful tips for individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Work is a big part of most of our lives - why not make it more meaningful, fun, and effective? This energizing and empowering book will show you how, with plenty of visual aids and helpful drawings.

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Mehmet S.

Extremely useful book

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2019

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This book is my reference guide. Whenever I've had a conflict at the workspace, I'm taking some time to read a couple of scenarios and find the possible solutions that the author is suggesting. I could find the exact scenarios that I have had. Very well documented, and the reference list is so strong! A lot of useful and practical information. I believe everybody is having the similar pain points and this book really provides a bunch of applicable practices. Easy to digest the content and easy to turn them into actionable items. Additionally, drawings make things to remember easily afterward. I strongly suggest this book read and apply to your daily life. I wish every senior person could find time to share their experiences in such a useful and productive way. I really want to thank the author! Excellent job!

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