Essay on the Book 'Fish!'
FISH!
- Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, Jon Christensen
‘There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself’
A very powerful statement. As a person with a work experience of a couple of years this sentence would have changed the way i approached my work and things related to me.
That’s why this book connected with me from the very beginning.
The story of the book revolves around the story of Mary Jane Ramirez and her workplace and how an accidental visit to a ‘Fish Market’ changed the way an entire department at an office as well she changed their style of working at work and improved relationships at home.
As in the book the main character Mary – a person good at heart & mother of 2 children - after the death of her husband lives a life wherein she is bothered more about the job security rather than being firm and taking risks. With her transfer as a head of Operations department, a dreaded department in every sense for being unresponsive, unpleasant, negative. In fact it is referred to as toxin energy dump. She feels the need to bring about a change in the department for its revival.
A visit to a Fish Market and in particular a store named popularly known as the Pike Place Fish Market where she sees that the workers selling Fish enjoy the work they do & have a lot of fun doing so and also play along the way and involve people around in their activities. Herein the character of Lonnie comes into picture. He is worker at the store and enjoys his job. At this point Lonnie explains Mary the reason for the ‘energy’ visible at the place. He says that there are 4 ingredients that make this place run. He tells her only 1 principle followed and that of ‘Choose Your Attitude’. Mary impressed with the advice sought more data from her boss Bill (a person she did not have friendly relationship) and got a few insights from David Whyte’s poem which changed her for the better. She knew it was time for
- Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, Jon Christensen
‘There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself’
A very powerful statement. As a person with a work experience of a couple of years this sentence would have changed the way i approached my work and things related to me.
That’s why this book connected with me from the very beginning.
The story of the book revolves around the story of Mary Jane Ramirez and her workplace and how an accidental visit to a ‘Fish Market’ changed the way an entire department at an office as well she changed their style of working at work and improved relationships at home.
As in the book the main character Mary – a person good at heart & mother of 2 children - after the death of her husband lives a life wherein she is bothered more about the job security rather than being firm and taking risks. With her transfer as a head of Operations department, a dreaded department in every sense for being unresponsive, unpleasant, negative. In fact it is referred to as toxin energy dump. She feels the need to bring about a change in the department for its revival.
A visit to a Fish Market and in particular a store named popularly known as the Pike Place Fish Market where she sees that the workers selling Fish enjoy the work they do & have a lot of fun doing so and also play along the way and involve people around in their activities. Herein the character of Lonnie comes into picture. He is worker at the store and enjoys his job. At this point Lonnie explains Mary the reason for the ‘energy’ visible at the place. He says that there are 4 ingredients that make this place run. He tells her only 1 principle followed and that of ‘Choose Your Attitude’. Mary impressed with the advice sought more data from her boss Bill (a person she did not have friendly relationship) and got a few insights from David Whyte’s poem which changed her for the better. She knew it was time for