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$\"joy$ <\/a>Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Dennis Bakke\u00a0is co-founder and CEO of AES, an energy company with 40,000 employees in 31 countries and revenues of $8.6 billion. Bakke\u00a0led a quest at AES to \u201ccreate the most \u2018fun\u2019 workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions, and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaped by his religious faith, his years at Harvard Business School, and his experience working for the Federal Energy Administration,\u00a0Bakke tells the remarkable story of AES in Joy at Work<\/em><\/a>. He describes his fight to break the stranglehold of \u201ccreating shareholder value\u201d on the corporate mind-set and replace it with more timeless values: integrity, fairness, social responsibility, and\u00a0above all \u2014 fun.<\/em>\u00a0He also describes the assault on his leadership when AES was sucked into the Enron downdraft and faced plunging stock prices.<\/p>\n

Joy at Work<\/em> offers a model for the 21st-century company that wants to treat\u00a0its people with respect, give\u00a0them unprecedented responsibility, and hold\u00a0them strictly accountable\u00a0because it\u2019s the right thing to do\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not just because it makes good business sense.<\/p>\n

Also, the Joy at Work Bible Study Companion<\/em><\/a>\u00a0leads individuals and small\u00a0groups through the biblical basis for Bakke\u2019s views on work and leadership.<\/p>\n

Reprinted from the Center for Faith and Work at LeTourneau University<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"