Tony Hsieh

ZAPPOS is an online retailer, whose focus started with shoes, deriving its name from the Spanish word zapatos, which means shoes. They are based out in Las Vegas, Nevada run by CEO Tony Hsieh who has revolutionized his company. Hsieh’s personal background and successes he has been extremely fortunate, although he has worked and earned his way to the top driven through happiness his entire life. At ZAPPOS Tony uses the upside-down pyramid view to structure his organization. This upside-down pyramid is a reversal of traditional management practices. Employees are placed at the top being the main focus of the company followed by the customers next and finally the managers and leaders at the bottom. In the video we saw that Tony Hsieh’s office…

Since then, he’s helped boost sales to over $1 billion a year and played a significant role in Amazon’s acquisition of the company in 2009. Instead of letting company news slowly trickle down to the ranks in typical corporate fashion, Hsieh is known for communicating with all employees directly via personalized email updates, all-hands meetings, and informal team gatherings, making sure that significant company news comes straight from the top. Hsieh also takes time to really listen to his…

Initially Zappos used a drop ship model for as many client deliveries as possible. In 2003, 25% of Zappos sales were imminent from drop ship [22]. Tony commented that “The drop ship business was easy money. We didn’t have to carry stock so we didn’t have any inventory risk or cash flow problems with that part of the business. But we had plenty of customer service issues. The inventory feeds that we were getting from our suppliers for our drop ship business were 95% precise at best, meaning that…

Zappos’ has been around since 1998, and was founded by Nick Swinmurn in San Francisco when he was looking for a certain pair of shoes. Nick walked the mall the entire day with no luck. He was so upset that he starting an online store selling shoes called Shoesite.com. The name was changed to Zappos’ around 1999, after Nick felt like the name needed to be changed to attract customers. Zappos’ ten core values were created and provided on Valentine’s Day in 2016. The 10 core values are used to…

I was in the Under Armour store in the Mall of America shopping for the new limited edition Steph Curry 3 shoes. Then I left after I had paid for them and I saw some guy wearing the same shoes I had just bought. I thought well that is a coincidence since I was the only one I had ever saw with these shoes. I was pretty wealthy since I had won the grand prize in lottery about 1 year ago. I also noticed he was wearing Virginia Cavalier sweatpants and a black sweatshirt with a terrapin on it. So I…

has become indifferent. His brothers footsteps are no longer ones he wishes to follow in. As terrible as this event was It forced him to mature and understand that the life he chooses will be one unlike any of his family members. However, what really changed Antonio for good was not the moment he viewed his brother as unfaithful, but the moment that Ultima breathed her last words. When Ultima died she spoke her last words to Antonio, but unlike the other last words he had heard hers were not a…

Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe also wrote the musical's book together. The musical opened in London's West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. It won the 1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. It is the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February 2012, the first production ever to do…

seen in both Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger and in Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy. Both of these books compare and contrast each other in ideas and principles when it comes to football at different levels. Bissinger and Dungy both examine how football is seen differently by people and how football leads to bigger impacts made in society throughout Friday Night Lights and Quiet Strength. In both respected books the coaches of the teams, coach Tony Dungy and coach Gaines, have two…

more than 80 years” (Ingle). This pattern suggests that NFL general managers likely used hiring practices that discriminated against black candidates. Black players played for many NFL teams, however, the coaching staffs did not reflect the racial diversity of the players. Decisionmakers held biases against minority candidates because they felt they lacked the intellectual ability to do the job. To fight against these biased beliefs, “the Rooney Rule in the NFL was created in order to create an…

Skateboarding Rolling down a hill, vision blurred so that I saw only streaks of blue sky before I saw the brown leaves on the ground. Pain shoots through every part of me that hit the hillside covered in sharp, pointed sticks, and large, uneven rocks. Finally, the rolling stops my face planted in the dirt, as I pushed myself upward, my family was already at the top of the hill screaming at me “ARE YOU ALRIGHT, HE DEFINITELY BROKE SOMETHING.” There voices sounded like I was underwater. Only one…