Tony Hsieh, the billionaire CEO of Zappos, is enthusiastic about neighborhood. He pours his time, vitality and fortune into constructing a community of like-minded individuals – first in Las Vegas, then Park Metropolis, Utah. However Tony’s quest to construct connection quickly spirals into isolation, dependancy and distrust of these closest to him, revealing a contradictory reality concerning the pursuit of considered one of our most elementary human wants.
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Additional studying
Tony Hsieh’s life story is informed in Marvel Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Delusion of Happiness in Silicon Valley, by Angel Au-Yeung and David Denims; Comfortable at Any Price: The Revolutionary Imaginative and prescient and Deadly Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre; and Tony’s personal autobiographical enterprise ebook, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Earnings, Ardour and Function.
Phil Prentiss’s account of Jody Sherman’s story is reported in Enterprise Insider. This script additionally drew on Aimee Groth’s ebook The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh’s Zapponian Utopia, and reporting in QZ, Vox [1], [2], The Atlantic, New Republic, Las Vegas Evaluation Journal, and an interview with Tyler Williams on Burner Podcast.
John Kay’s ebook is Obliquity: Why our objectives are finest achieved not directly. Can In search of Happiness Make Individuals Comfortable? Paradoxical Results of Valuing Happiness is a research by Iris B Mauss, Maya Tamir, Craig L Anderson, and Nicole S Savino.
