Archive for 'Corporate Soul'

Tony Hsieh CEO of Zappos is a business rock star as well he should be. He is changing the meaning and experience of work. Kudos. Along with others I have been shouting his praises over the past several months. But we are all missing the point if we attempt to copy ... Read more »

Leadership Leap Frog is a game for leaders of the informal or formal variety. It requires multiple players but is more fun and progressive when an entire organization gets involved. The formal leader, the one with the title, goes first by jumping beyond where he was standing and the way he was thinking and behaving. This move is called a ... Read more »

Click here to listen to a recording of my conversation with Elese Coit about fixing the hole in the corporate soul and learn how to bring your essence to work.

“Pursue growth and learning,” is fourth on the list of Zappos’ ten core values, and the shoe seller walks the talk. Zappos employees are paid for mastering new competencies.  They receive an incremental raise for becoming certified in any one of the company’s 25 skill sets, and employees choose which competencies to master. They can learn to run a customer service ... Read more »

Two big questions have been following me for a number of years.

1. How can we shift the paradigm and the experience from work life no balance to work life integration?

2. How can we restore soul to work at the corporate and individual levels?

Then along comes Flow. A state of maximum engagement based in the intrinsic meaning of work.

I’ve adapted Csikszentmihalyi’s ... Read more »

For the introduction to this series click here.

For Chapter 1 Part 1 – An interview with Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of Delivering Happiness click here.

To read about the origins of Corporate Soul click here.

To become a member of the Corporate Soul Movement click here.

When Tony Hsieh joined Zappos as CEO he vowed that ... Read more »

Welcome to the Corporate Soul series featuring people and companies who bring soul to work. It is also a forum for sharing ideas that advance this practice. After all “Life is just a chance to grow a soul.” A. Powell Davies (Thanks to SCJoson who writes about economic sense in a world of invisible money ... Read more »

Knowing and working from essence is the first step in bringing soul to work and finding your flow. To view the flow model click here.

The Essence of Tony Hsieh

Tony makes me think about otters. Otters play and so does Tony Hsieh. He defies conventional wisdom. He succeeds by creating a different set of rules, and he ... Read more »