Make the Right Choice: Lead with Passion, Elevate Your Team, and Unleash the Fun at Work, Fully Revised and Updated with The Spirit of ‘TA DA!'

  • 3h 13m
  • Joel Zeff
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2025

Entertaining guide to adopt a more fun and fulfilling approach to work

In the latest, freshly updated edition of Make the Right Choice: Lead with Passion, Elevate Your Team, and Unleash the Fun at Work, renowned keynote speaker, improv actor, and comedian Joel Zeff delivers a unique, interactive, humorous, and highly entertaining blueprint to create a new approach to work that is inspiring, fun, and infinitely more effective. Filled with self-contained chapters that will make you laugh and nod your head in agreement, this book has everything readers need to increase engagement, communicate more effectively, and create a positive and successful work environment.

You'll find hilarious and insightful observations on everything from “The Six Sprinkles on the Leadership Cupcake” to seven underappreciated—and effective—ways to create a culture of fun and enthusiasm at work.

This book is inspired by Zeff's extensive experience playing improvisational games with thousands of employees, managers, and corporate leaders at companies like Walmart, KPMG, and PepsiCo. In this book, readers will learn how to:

  • Make the choice to be fun, passionate, and happy and stay in the game when the going gets tough
  • Create magic chemistry to success through positivity and opportunity and communicate in the moment
  • Start utilizing the creative mind more effectively and establish a foundation for seamless teamwork

The polar opposite of a boring business book, the revised and expanded edition of Make the Right Choice earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of managers, business leaders, and all individuals seeking a more fun and fulfilling approach to work. By the time you get to the last page, you'll have embraced Zeff's TA DA philosophy and transformed the way you work and lead.

About the Author

As a national speaker, work culture expert, and humorist, JOEL ZEFF captivates audiences with a unique blend of hilarious improvisational comedy and essential ideas on work and life. Zeff has spoken at more than 2,500 events, with corporate clients including Walmart, McDonald’s, KPMG, AT&T, Wells Fargo, and PepsiCo.

In this Book

  • Preface
  • The Secrets of TA DA: Celebrating Moments to Fuel Our Passion
  • The Story of Losing My Job and a Magic Harmonica
  • Fun Is a Choice, Passion Is a Choice, Happiness Is a Choice
  • Make the Right Choice: Six Sprinkles on the Leadership Cupcake
  • Beware of the Dumb Ass Manager (D.A.M.): Observations on Leadership
  • The Magic Chemistry for Success: Positive Support and Opportunity, Part 1
  • The Magic Chemistry for Success: Positive Support and Opportunity, Part 2
  • The Five TA DA Tenets of Teamwork
  • The Foundation for Teamwork: Making Everyone Else Successful
  • The Secrets to Success During Change and Disruption: Embrace the Chaos; Be Open and Flexible; Be in the Moment; Be Prepared for Change
  • Stay in the Game
  • Learn to Communicate in the Moment
  • Communication Intervention
  • The Creative Mind: Thinking without a Script
  • Life Happens in the Front Row
  • We All Have Choices
  • Stand and Be Recognized: A Few Thoughts on Awards and Recognition
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