This humorous book explodes the myth that a happy company is a productive one. It shows how to avoid the complacency and ineffeciency that follow a sense of well-being and job security. Arguing that the feel-good factor actually makes a business more placid and less competitive, the author observes that stress at an unacceptable level has a vital role to play in a company's success.

Full of inventive and imaginative ways to ensure that your colleagues perform to their full potential and that your work environment is bereft of comfort and languor, here is a complete strategy for creating and managing a more productive and profitable organization through the thoughtful creation of stress.