Inc: The Zappos Way of Managing

February 10th, 2014

feature-73-zappos2-pop_2How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation, stellar customer service, and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut — and one of the most blissed-out businesses in America.

This isn’t polite conversation for Hsieh. “I’ve been doing a lot of research into the science of happiness,” he says. In addition to asking everyone he meets what makes him or her happy, he has also been studying books on the subject, especially Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis, which uses social psychology experiments to evaluate the world’s great religions and philosophies and concludes that ancient wisdom and science are both useful tools in the quest for contentment. Hsieh is working on a system to supersede both. “I’ve been trying to come up with a unified theory for happiness,” he says.

“What would make you happier in your life?”, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh asks. Read more from Inc Magazine here!http://ow.ly/snHxU

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