Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose Best Review
Great book!!!
Simple, conversation style writing reels you right in.
The author, co-founder of zappos, humble despite all of his achievements, paints such a detailed picture of his life you can almost see the places and events.
In these days of tightening margins, in an effort to reduce costs, we are all seeing companies across the board cutting costs on all the wrong areas (try getting a hold of Sprint, Citizen's Bank, US Airways...) and if you do get a hold of anyone, the experience is so horrible you want to take a shower afterwards.
He realized that consistently great experience, from start to finish (and then some), will keep customers for life, and goes into great depth to describe how they are getting there and constantly evolving.
Not crazy about the chapter where the employees write paragraphs, for no other reason other that different writing styles change the dynamics of the flow.
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose Overview
In his first book, Tony Hsieh - the hip, iconoclastic, and widely-admired CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer - - explains how he created a corporate culture with a commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors, and backers. Using anecdotes and stories from his own life experiences, and from other companies, Hsieh provides concrete ways that companies can achieve unprecedented success. He details many of the unique practices at Zappos, such as their philosophy of allocating marketing money into the customer experience, the importance of Zappos's Core Values ("Deliver WOW through Service"), and the reason why Zappos's number one priority is company culture and his belief that once you get the culture right, everything else - great customer service, long-term branding - will happen on its own. Finally, Delivering Happiness explains how Zappos employees actually apply the Core Values to improving their lives outside of work, proving that creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose Specifications
The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success.
Pay new employees 00 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too.
Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that's doing over billion in gross merchandise sales every year.
In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for 5 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO.
In 2009, Zappos was listed as one of Fortune magazine's top 25 companies to work for, and was acquired by Amazon later that year in a deal valued at over .2 billion on the day of closing.
In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life. (edited by author)
Amazon Exclusive Author Q&A with Tony Hsieh, Author of Delivering Happiness
I think usually by the time you're 12 years old, you either have the entrepreneurial spirit or you don't. I would describe the entrepeneurial spirit as a combination of creativity and optimisim.
2. Could you name one particular experience that inspired you to create a company devoted to customer happiness?For me, it's really been driven by daily examples of bad customer service in my everyday personal life.
3. Was the worm farm really the invaluable catalyst for forming your business and life philosophy?My parents tell me that as a kid I was always trying to come up with different business ideas. The idea of starting a worm farm is my earliest memory of a business idea.
4. You say that you have always been an avid book reader. What are your favorite books? Which non-business book helped you grow professionally?Business books: Good to Great, Peak, Tribal LeadershipMade to Stick
Non-business books: The Happiness HypothesisComedy Writing SecretsThe Game
5. What is the ratio between rebelling against conventional wisdom and sticking to the good old truths in building a successful business?1:10
6. You describe your way to happiness starting with profits, then going through passion and finally getting to purpose. Is that the only path to business happiness?No, that was just the path that I happened to take. Part of the purpose of the book is to help other entrepreneurs and business owners shortcut the process and encourage them to go straight to combining profits, passion, and purpose.
7. You seem to have taken risks with business ideas a lot while growing up. How do you recognize a risk that you shouldn't take?I think it just comes down to really breaking down what the worst case scenario actually is. For most of us, we're lucky to live in a time and in a society where we aren't actually ever in danger of dying from starvation or lack of shelter. Most of us have friends whose couches we can crash on in the worst case scenario, so any "risk" we take in starting a company isn't actually that big a risk.
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Customer Reviews
Good Book - Jojo Hess - Utah, USA
I was told about this book by a friend and bought it thinking it was more of a "How To" book, and even though it isn't, It was great to listen to and they do bring up great business ideas and things to keep in mind when trying to build a business.
Simply brilliant - Paul Bond - Monaghan,Ireland
I didn't read this book...I devoured it. I read it over two evenings and I found it very uplifting. I have already recommended it to my colleagues and friends.
Truly inspirational.
good read right on - george short -
I read the book in 1 night! very interesting, he has some very good insight into customer happiness!
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