Laughter is the Best Business

We have all heard that laughter is the best medicine, but it is also the best business. According to a study by Goleman and the Hay Group referenced in a Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind, found that "within organizations, the most effective leaders were funny (that is funny ha-ha, not funny strange). These leaders had their charges laughting three times more often than their managerial counterparts."

So, it is good for your career to laugh. I read about this humor test to determine your preferred style of humor. Warning: the test itself is a raw for my taste and the requires registration (and they email you afterwards at annoying frequency). I am not recommending you do it, if you are offended by body humor.

Here is what they said about my sense of humor:

STYLE: The Prankster
CLEAN COMPLEX LIGHT
Your humor has an intellectual, even conceptual slant to it. You're not pretentious, but you're not into what some would call 'low humor' either. You'll laugh at a good dirty joke, but you definitely prefer something clever to something moist.You probably like well-thought-out pranks and/or spoofs and it's highly likely you've tried one of these things yourself. In a lot of ways, yours is the most entertaining type of humor because it's smart without being mean-spirited.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Conan O'Brian - Ashton Kutcher

OPPOSITE STYLE: The Shock Jock