If a business wants to grow quickly but in a sustainable manner, one area in which it must ‘lift the average’ is recruitment. A robust recruitment process will help to hire fellow zealots who make your team, business and workplace even better. Selecting the right people to jump aboard is a critical task that leaders […]
An obsession with learning is one of the most common traits of successful leaders, sportspeople & entrepreneurs. This week I’ve heard how two global entrepreneurs have leveraged other people’s experience to grow their businesses through an obsession with reading. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos is an avid reader. Tony strongly encouraged all of the early Zappos employees […]
Zappos.com is famous for their company culture. Today I had the chance to check it out first hand with a tour of their campus. I was impressed. The Zappo’s culture is everything I expected it to be: it’s high energy, it’s welcoming, it’s fascinating and it’s pretty weird. Here’s a few predictable and not-so-predictable things […]
To maintain a strong company culture, selection is as much about keeping the wrong people out of your team as it is about getting the right people in. Here’s why.. At Zappos, people that don’t fit their culture are known as ‘polluters’. I love the simplicity of this term because I’ve seen it first hand. When […]