After he’d removed the previous leadership team and stepped back into the CEO role, P. John Aldred, the founder of Enerflex Systems, lamented to me that for weeks he’d looked in vain to find someone, anyone, who was having fun in their job. John’s belief was that business had to be fun for the people who worked there and only after they were having fun, would good results follow.
An experienced and practical leader, he attributed Enerflex’s poor performance over the previous couple of years to a culture that wasn’t fun. His belief was proven right because after he successfully improved the culture, Enerflex started growing again.