I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.
TONY HSIEHYour brand is your culture.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
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It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
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Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
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What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.
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Your brand is your culture.
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