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A company that was bought by Amazon last July. This admiration is, among other things, the way you have to create the corporate culture within their companies and have everyone working with him to feel well in their jobs. The lifestyle of Tony and his thinking as an entrepreneur.
Gives several examples, such as Link Exchange, a company he founded with a roommate in the year 96, who grew up very fast (they have 100 employees) but eventually sold to Microsoft for $ 265 million 2 years after creating. Many may think that this amount of money was a good reason to sell, but it was not just that reason.
With the money he took had no need to return to work, so what if it was clear that it would be in a totally different environment, would not join a company that had no desire to go every day, therefore, the following year when he joined Zippos started working in the corporate culture.
Said in an interview five years ago was formalized its corporate culture in ten core values. Values that were based to hire or fire people, regardless of performance in their jobs. At the start were 37 values, but finally condensed into 10 (grouping several or delete some).
The way to promote this culture among its employees was mainly that they helped create, so the initial list of 37 points among all ended up leaving at 10. Another way to boost it was for example offer free lunch to the workers, thus tended to speak to each other, even around the coffee machine.
Other measures adopted to eliminate multiple outputs in the office for everyone to come and go they did at the same point and cross and greet each morning. One of the teams decided to decorate the conference room like a log cabin, spent the entire weekend doing so. This caused other teams to do is bite it. Finally, in two or three months, 20 conference rooms were ‘decorated’.
Also said today within Zippos makes two types of interviews for the recruitment of candidates, a more technical skills profile and another made from Human Resources to see if the candidate fits the company culture. Even if the contract was for a senior position, it would be different, because senior executives are accustomed to interviews, so surely, says Tony, you invite a couple of barbecues with his family, to see a more personal atmosphere and a senior position can be loaded all the company’s corporate culture.