Corporate Celebration Play, Purpose, and Profit at Work

Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They bond people together and connect us to shared values and myths. Ceremonies and rituals create community. In a time when many organisations are suffering from eroded cultural values and symbolic ties due to restructuring, reengineering and downsizing, Corporate Celebration highlights possibilities for revitalising business. Corporate Celebration distils what we know about the role ritual and ceremony play in human organisations, articulates the many forms that celebration takes, and documents the potential powerful impact of celebrations on employee morale, commitment and loyalty, as well as financial performance. Finally, it offers principles and practical guidance for creating top-flight, engaging, meaningful celebrations. Sales Points Corporate Celebration is likely to have as broad an impact on the new generation of business people as did Corporate Cultures as it ties into many of the hottest topics in today's business environment: leadership, profit, purpose, community, team building and more. Offers practical guidance on creating celebrations that really make a difference.

Terrence E. Deal, Ph.D. an author, teacher, and consultant, has written seventeen books including the bestselling Corporate Cultures. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford and currently teaches at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Deal consults with a wide variety of organizations, including banks, hospitals, and schools, in the United States and abroad.
Business consultant, speaker, author and executive coach, Dr. Mary Key heads Key Associates, Inc. (KA), an organizational effectiveness consulting firm committed to the development of leaders and organizations. Key has helped clients produce “breakthrough” results for over 20 years through a system of Right Focus, Right People and Right Execution. She works with individuals, teams and organizations in areas such as strategic planning, leading change, leadership and team development, talent acquisition and retention, and how to transform your organization. Key has worked with Fortune 500 companies, Inc. 500 winners and various government agencies. Among others, her clients have included: Nokia, Nissan, Infiniti, Baycare Health System, Baptist Health Care, Bausch & Lomb, Wyeth Nutrition, Ericsson, CitiFinancial Retail Services, Mission Healthcare System, Circuit City, G.D.Searle, Cooper Industries, Dorn Technology, Georgia-Pacific, Florida Steel, Lake Ontario Steel, RedVector, Jack Morton Worldwide, Incarnate Word Health Systems, Prevent Blindness America, the Province of British Columbia, and various agencies in the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Key has also consulted in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Key has authored several books including CEO Road Rules: Right Focus, Right People, Right Execution and The Entrepreneurial Cat: 13 Ways to Transform Your Work Life. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and her BS from the University of Massachusetts. For more information, visit Key Associates.