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The must-read summary of Tony Hsieh's book: "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose".
This complete summary of the ideas from Tony Hsieh's book "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose" shows how everyone has the potential to become a successful entrepreneur with dedication and hard work. In his book, Hsieh explains the best practices of his own company, Zappos, and how it is important to create a customer-focused company that also provides a happy working environment for employees. This book is a must-read for any budding entrepreneur who wants to learn from the best in the business and start building their fortune.
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To learn more, read "Delivering Happiness" and find out how you can start focusing on other people's happiness to increase your own.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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Book Presentation: Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
About the Author
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Book Presentation: Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
About the Author
TONY HSIEH is CEO of Zappos Inc., an online shoe retailer which was acquired by Amazon in November 2009 in a deal valued at $1.2 billion. In 1999, at the age of 24, Mr. Hsieh sold Link Exchange, a company he and a friend had cofounded, for $265 million to Microsoft. He initially joined Zappos as an investor before then becoming an adviser and eventually CEO as the company grew from being a startup in 1999 to $1 billion in annual sales in 2008. FORTUNE Magazine rated Zappos as one of the “100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR” in 2009. Mr. Hsieh has also cofounded a business incubator and investment firm called Venture Frogs. Tony Hsieh is a graduate of Harvard University.
The Web site for this book is atwww.DeliveringHappinessBook.com.
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
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Tony Hsieh was born in Illinois to parents who had emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in order to attend graduate school at the University of Illinois. At age five, his father got a job in California so Tony grew up in Lucas Valley, Marlin County, California – which is north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. Lucas Valley takes its name from movie producer George Lucas’s business which is located there.
Tony’s parents insisted that he learn how to play the piano and the violin but Tony didn’t see much point in that at all. Therefore, he used to go to his room and play a tape recording of him practicing. While his parents listened reassuringly to the practice session they assumed was in full swing, Tony spent his time reading books or magazines.
“As you can imagine, my piano and violin teachers could not understand why I showed no improvement every time they saw me during weekly lessons. I think they just thought I was a slow learner. From my perspective, I just couldn’t see how learning to play all these musical instruments would result in any type of benefit that was scalable.”
– Tony Hsieh
While his parents wanted Tony to attend medical school or get a Ph.D. in something, he thought that sounded like an awful lot of work. About the only thing Tony really found interesting was making money. He organized garage sales, had a newspaper route (until he figured out that paid only $2 an hour), tried to publish his own newsletter and bought a button making kit. Throughout his high school years, he always had money making projects bubbling away on the sidelines.
On graduation from high school, Tony applied to and was accepted by Brown, UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, Yale and Harvard. He actually wanted to go to Brown because they offered an advertising major – which at least sounded useful in the business world. However, his parents thought Harvard was the most prestigious university so it was there he ended up. Tony figured he’d better make the most of it.
“I arranged my schedule so that I only had classes from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, leaving my Tuesdays and Thursdays free. On class days, my 8:00 alarm was the most unwelcome sound in the world. I would hit the snooze button repeatedly, and then tell myself that I could skip the first class of the day and get the notes from someone else later. Then, an hour later, I would convince myself that since the logic worked so well for the first class, I could apply it to the second class, so I missed that class as well. By the time I was supposed to be getting ready to go to my third class, I reasoned that I had already skipped two classes, so one more class really wasn’t that big a deal. And finally, by the time I was supposed to be headed to my last class of the day, I figured there was no point in only attending one class when I had skipped all the others. So basically, I ended up not attending any of my classes freshman year.”
– Tony Hsieh
To get through his courses, Tony logged on to the new electronic newsgroups which were just starting to be used at Harvard and created a virtual study group where everyone pooled their classnotes together. He compiled these notes and had them photocopied and bound and Tony then sold these notes to other students for $20 each. In this way, not only did he get what he needed to read to pass his courses but he made a profit.
