Increased productivity. High morale. Effective change management. Reduced workplace conflict, stress, and burnout. These aren't laughing matters -- or are they? Most business leaders today completely overlook one of the most valuable tools available to them humor. Using dozens of examples and anecdotes, this book explores the connections between humor and creativity, teamwork, risk-taking, and effective communication. In addition to exploring the benefits of humor, the author also provides research-based explanations and answers to important questions like: -- What is humor? -- Why is it so closely related to creativity -- How does it reduce stress? The book also includes exercises and tips to help you experience the benefits of humor for yourself, and will show you how to implement them in your work.

Humor Works

Business & Money

John Morreall

Business Culture

Human Resource Development Pr

Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humor <ul>
<li>Offers an enlightening and accessible foray into the serious business of humor</li> <li>Reveals how standard theories of humor fail to explain its true nature and actually support traditional prejudices against humor as being antisocial, irrational, and foolish</li> <li>Argues that humor’s benefits overlap significantly with those of philosophy</li> <li>Includes a foreword by Robert Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker
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Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor (New Directions in Aesthetics, No. 9)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Wiley/Blackwell

This complete overview of religious studies provides students with the essential knowledge and tools they need to explore and understand the nature of religion. <ul> <li>Covers the early development of religion, with overviews of major and minor religions from Islam to Scientology</li> <li>Considers recent developments including secularization; the relationship between religion and science; and scientific studies on religion, health, and mystical experience</li> <li>Uses humor throughout, allowing students to remain open-minded to the subject</li> <li>Explains what it means to study religion academically, and considers the impact of the study of religion on religion itself</li> <li>Contains numerous student-friendly features including photos, maps, time lines, side bars, historical profiles, and population distribution figures</li> <li>Provides classroom users with a lively website,www.wiley.com/go/religiontoolkit, &nbsp;including questions, quizzes, extra material, and helpful primary and secondary sources</li> </ul>

The Religion Toolkit: A Complete Guide to Religious Studies

Based on 35 years of research, this book shows how essential humor is in business, medicine, education, and family life. Funny images and New Yorker cartoons by Robert Mankoff enhance the lessons.

Laughing All The Way: Your Sense of Humor Don't Leave Home Without It

Motivational Press LLC

This book assesses the adequacy of the traditional theories of laughter and humor, suggests revised theories, and explores such areas as the aesthetics and ethics of humor, and the relation of amusement to other mental states. Theories of laughter and humor originated in ancient times with the view that laughter is an expression of feelings of superiority over another person. This superiority theory was held by Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes. Another aspect of laughter, noted by Aristotle and Cicero and neglected until Kant and Schopenhauer developed it into the incongruity theory, is that laughter is often a reaction to the perception of some incongruity. According to the third and latest traditional theory, the relief theory of Herbert Spencer and Freud, laughter is the venting of superfluous nervous energy. Historical examples of all these theories are presented along with hybrid theories such as those of Descartes and Bergson. The book also features traditional explorations of the place of humor in aesthetics, drama, and literature. This is the first work in the last fifty years to include the classic sources in the philosophy of humor and the first to present theories by contemporary philosophers.

The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor (SUNY Series in Philosophy)

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