{"id":1820,"date":"2009-12-10T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T14:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2009-12-10T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T14:35:51","slug":"profits-passion-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2009\/12\/profits-passion-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Profits, passion, purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a highlight of this second day at <a href=\"http:\/\/leweb.net\/\">LeWeb 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tony Hsieh, CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/zappos.com\/\">Zappos.com<\/a>, blew away the crowd this morning at LeWeb with an inspiring speech about meaning\/purpose and happiness. A long applause followed his presentation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.praized.com\/seb\/conferences\/tony-hsieh-zappos-ceo-on-happiness\/\">Sebastien compiled a write-up of Tony&#8217;s talk here<\/a>, some tasty bits on the real success factors in business today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1913\" title=\"Zappos _ profits, passion, purpose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frogpond.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zappos-_-profits-passion-purpose-500x257.png\" alt=\"Zappos _ profits, passion, purpose\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Citing from him again, go to his post for a more elaborate list, highlighting by me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hsieh says Zappos takes most of the money they would have invested in marketing and <strong>invests it in customer experience<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The corporate culture is the number one priority. Zappos <strong>hires for culture<\/strong> [&#8230;]<\/li>\n<li>They worry about <strong>customer happiness, employee happiness, vendor happiness<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>What separates great from good companies? <strong>Culture: committable core values <\/strong>[&#8230;]<\/li>\n<li>Everyone should take a step back and ask what is<strong> your goal in life <\/strong>and the reasons why it\u2019s your goal? and then you should ask why you answered that? and try it again.<\/li>\n<li>[&#8230;] Meaning \/ higher purpose is the <strong>most sustainable way to reach happiness<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a highlight of this second day at LeWeb 2009. Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, blew away the crowd this morning at LeWeb with an inspiring speech about meaning\/purpose and happiness. A long applause followed his presentation. Sebastien compiled a write-up of Tony&#8217;s talk here, some tasty bits on the real success factors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4],"tags":[26,182,569,570,538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}