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Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Diddy.

Roundtable Talk

On the flip side, people who I know who don’t love their jobs but make lots of money seem to spend a lot of time throwing around words like “golden handcuffs” and seem to be perpetually stressed and unhappy. When it comes to long-term career happiness, money and titles wear off pretty quickly.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

When one customer is responsible for the lion’s share of your sales, it’s like golden handcuffs. The challenge is to cast off the handcuffs while keeping the gold. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. To read Hank’s complete biography, click here. All rights reserved.