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

Roundtable Talk

Diddy) Posted on July 30, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 2 Comments As regular blog followers will remember, last week I saw Zappos.com’s head happiness spreader, Tony Hsieh , talk about his team’s winning formula for business success. Hsieh credited P. 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

Although big, global supply chains certainly have their own dynamism, they mostly evolve incrementally through minnovation rather than disruption – and thus get short shrift in the business media and amongst aspiring entrepreneurs, hungry to create successful ventures. The challenge is to cast off the handcuffs while keeping the gold.

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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. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Communications.