January 25th, 2009
At Zappos, we have 10 core values that act as a formalized definition of our company culture. Our core values weren’t formed by a few people from senior management that sat around in a room at a company offsite. Instead, we invited every employee at Zappos to participate in the process, and here’s the final list we collectively came up with:
1) Deliver WOW Through Service
2) Embrace and Drive Change
3) Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4) Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5) Pursue Growth and Learning
6) Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7) Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8) Do More With Less
9) Be Passionate and Determined
10) Be Humble
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Personal values ~ company values? Yep.
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January 25th, 2009
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
via my dad.
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December 31st, 2008
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December 3rd, 2008
From Ratan Tata‘s letter to all Tata companies (dated: Nov 6 2008):
Under the circumstances I consider it essential that each of our companies should consider:
- the conservation of cash to the maximum extent possible
- draw down all loans / lines of credit from banks and institutions to the maximum extent possible
- expeditiously finalise pending load and funding agreements, even if they involve accepting higher rates of interest
Companies should also take finite steps to:
- improve operational efficiency
- aggressively implement restructuring of internal cost framework
- drastically reduce operating expenditure
- defer non-essential capital expenditure and capacity expansion
- put on hold any plans for acquisitions unless considered strategically critical
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November 7th, 2008
The other day a friend asked me to describe what Lookery does. Given all the recent news coming out of Lookery, and us re-focusing ourselves on what we believe our biggest opportunities are and on what we do best, I thought it would be a good idea to post my (long) one line description right here:
Lookery is
aggregating anonymous
self-reported user data from a large network of trusted
data contributors like social networks, dating, and e-commerce sites, and
making it readily accessible to
any advertiser, ad network, or publisher to
target their message or content in
real-time anywhere on the web and to
learn more about their
own audience.
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