Get This Book If…
- You’d like to improve your image as good-natured with a sense of humor
- You are in meetings and you need to reach for a quick filler
The Pretty Good Joke Book is an unlikely book to make it to anyone else’s top-10 leadership books, but here’s why those lists are missing out.
Reliable
How many jokes could you rattle off from memory? If you’re like most people, likely two or three. Add the pressure of a zoom call and you might fumble it.
Joke books have become relics unfairly. These days it is common to rely on Google or an AI chatbot to provide a zinger in a pinch. That’s all well and good, but nothing compares to having more than a thousand categorized and curated jokes to quickly thumb through and deliver. No AI hallucinations, no ad-saturated junk websites, just jokes.
Safe-For-Work
A top rule for leaders in an organization is that you have to keep it PG. “Dad jokes” are the sweet spot, causing “the groan”. This book contains myriad jokes safe to deploy in any meeting. Read more about the biz rules of humor.
It’s a Prop
One of its hidden features is that it’s literally a prop you can show on camera and point to.
Who wants to hear a pretty good joke? Not a great joke, just a pretty good one?
and then show the book. In the right setting with the right people it will delight in that perfect safe-for-work way. I’ve done this many times for external folks (vendors, clients) and it works almost always.
In Summary
Whether you pick this book or another similar one, having a joke book within reach is a cheap and easy way to give yourself an advantage that will improve your image.
