The Levity Effect： Why It Pays to Lighten Up
Take my boss…please
Even those readers who swear they don't have a funny bone in their bodies will find comfort in Gostick and Christopher's admonition that "the Levity Effect is not so much about being funny as it is about being fun. Give your employees some rope. Enjoy the fun and humor they create. Don't sit in meetings furrowing your brow when employees are making light. Sit back and smile and remind yourself that the resulting effect of their making merry will be making money." The authors write that you don't have to be comedian Chris Rock to make the Levity Effect work； you just have to be willing to find opportunities to inject fun into the workday lives of your employees.
At times， the humorous asides that Gostick and Christopher pepper throughout The Levity Effect can seem a bit stilted， as anything that tries to be funny takes that risk， but they provide useful insights in a subject often dismissed as too "soft" for the business world. But if lower turnover， increased creativity and higher profitability are any indications of the upside of levity， work should be getting much more fun soon.
Vocabulary Focus
admonition（n）—— a piece of advice that is also a warning to someone
give some rope （idiom）—— to allow someone to do what they want to， knowing that they may fail or get into trouble
stilted（adj）—— too formal； not smooth or natural
Take my boss…please
Even those readers who swear they don't have a funny bone in their bodies will find comfort in Gostick and Christopher's admonition that "the Levity Effect is not so much about being funny as it is about being fun. Give your employees some rope. Enjoy the fun and humor they create. Don't sit in meetings furrowing your brow when employees are making light. Sit back and smile and remind yourself that the resulting effect of their making merry will be making money." The authors write that you don't have to be comedian Chris Rock to make the Levity Effect work； you just have to be willing to find opportunities to inject fun into the workday lives of your employees.
At times， the humorous asides that Gostick and Christopher pepper throughout The Levity Effect can seem a bit stilted， as anything that tries to be funny takes that risk， but they provide useful insights in a subject often dismissed as too "soft" for the business world. But if lower turnover， increased creativity and higher profitability are any indications of the upside of levity， work should be getting much more fun soon.
Vocabulary Focus
admonition（n）—— a piece of advice that is also a warning to someone
give some rope （idiom）—— to allow someone to do what they want to， knowing that they may fail or get into trouble
stilted（adj）—— too formal； not smooth or natural