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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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Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success

Harvard Business Review

What makes it so successful? As the saying goes, “Success has many fathers.” This employee shareholding system is referred to within Huawei as the “silver handcuff.” ” It is a system that is different from the more common stock option arrangement, which is often termed the “golden handcuff.”

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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

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. ’ 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. Communications. Companies come and go.