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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Rules for Playing the Motivation Game

Peter Gerrickens · 2002
44/100
👎 Skip It

This is a board game kit with a rulebook, not a book you read — and that distinction matters enormously for Penny's catalog. The facilitation framework sounds practical and HR trade press responded warmly, but the value is entirely in the card-based group activity, not the text. Readers expecting a self-help book will feel misled; facilitators need the full kit and training to use it.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety87
Substance / usefulness52
Craft & writing65
Originality54
Evidence & accuracy66
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit44
👁 Human-eye gut-check45
Penny’s verdict44
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