Fish! A synopsis.

She needed to find some way to bring life into the third floor.  The “toxic energy dump” that it was could not be that way any longer.  Her break came when she strolled to the world famous Pike Place Fish Market.  She noticed the liveliness in the market among the fishmongers and thought that she would love to have this liveliness in her new office.  

Mary Jane met Lonnie the fishmonger at the market who was willing to share the ingredients of a lively work environment.  Lonnie gave her the first ingredient: Choose Your Attitude.  Over the following week she had meetings with the staff on the third floor and shared this new message with them.  As one would guess, she saw an immediate improvement in the attitude of the third floor.

With this positive outcome Mary Jane went to Lonnie again for the remaining ingredients.  They were: Play, Make Their Day and Be Present.  She noted these points down in her journal and elaborated on how she noticed the fish guys implement them.  On Monday morning she gave her boss Bill a piece of fish that she called “smiling sushi”.  Bill was somewhat confused, but welcomed the change because it made him smile.  She then spoke to the staff in her office and told them that she wanted to take them to the market and show them “energy in action”.  The office was split in two groups and they were taken to the market separately during lunch so that the other group could cover the operations at the office.  Mary Jane noticed some good interaction between the fish guys and her staff.  Stephanie from the second group had an attempt at catching fish.  

At the end of the week Mary Jane spoke to her staff about the four ingredients of a lively work environment and made an outline of what she thought each one meant.  She split the staff into four groups, one for each ingredient.  Each group was given the task of making a presentation six weeks later about their ingredient.  “The Play Team”, “The Make Their Day Team”, “The Present Moment Team” and “The Choose Your Attitude Team” all made their presentations sharing some very personal experiences and giving the rest of the staff their suggestions on how they would benefit from using the ingredient and how they could implement it.  The whole plan worked very well and a year later Mary Jane noticed a new problem: all the people from around the company wanted to work in her office on the third floor of First Guarantee.

The story ends with Lonnie the fishmonger proposing to Mary Jane.  One can go on to guess further that they all lived happily ever after.