The Game of Work / Coonradt 10-15

11 By increasing the frequency of your feedback, you have more opportunities to catch and eliminate problems of a solvable size.

Fourth, in recreation participants feel they have a higher degree of choice.

Managers must ask themselves if they are using the principal of choice when giving out assignments to employees. Are people being allowed to perform in areas where they have natural interests and abilities... When people feel that they have no choice in what they are doing, they lose their enthusiasm, and performance suffers.

Fifth, in recreation they don't change the rules in the middle of the game.

15 In the absence of clearly defined goals, we are forced to concentrate on activity and ultimately become enslaved by it. Chuck Coonradt