I cannot help but remember my past experiences of book reviews. Never really reading the entire book assignment, choosing books because they were short (Or I had read for other classes). So here I sat over the last week or so reading this book with a purpose of giving a real review.
I have to be honest, they sent me a free copy if I would blog about this. They also ask me to give an honest opinion. (If anything, they made a point of being honest).
The book launches today and to purchase go to
http://www.amazon.com/deliveringhappiness
and of course see the books web page
http://www.deliveringhappinessbook.com
I have to say I enjoy the way the book is laid out. It is really “Honest” You ask what that means? Sometimes I read other books with stories and it feels like the story was made up to fit the business lesson. Not this book. First of all there is no ghost writer and second, Tony makes a point to say he is writing in a style that may not please editors. HEY that is me!
Tony (Tony Hsieh founder of LinkExchange and Zappos(OK contributed to the last) tells his story of coming up the ideas that became business successes and keys that lead to historic growth. That is fine. The real point that he is making is the importance of relationships (True one on one relationships not these fake business networking relationships). Passion is another key to real business growth. Not only in the entrepreneur but the people working for the company. Clearly Tony struggled keeping this passion. His passion is in my opinion the entrepreneur ship itself.
One new concept that was drove home to me personally is
“Profit, Passion and Purpose”
I had to question myself and ask if I had all three. Do you?
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