Delivering Happiness - Review

Reading someone's book is like living through someone's life, gaining the experience they gained without needing to make the mistakes they made. 

--This statement couldn't be more true describing this book.

This book walked-through the life of Tony Hsieh, the man behind LinkExchanged and Zappos. Through Tony's writing, we got a glimpse of the life of a regular child negotiating with the obligation of school work - something I can definitely relates to, getting into a prestigious university and proceed to be unmotivated in academic pursue, looking to cut corner every chance he gets - something I definitely can relate to (the lazy to study part, not the getting into Harvard part), to finishing U and working a passionless but good paying job. (Me).

Then the plot twisted. First is him having the courage to quit his well paying job to start a business of his own and hence an inspiring story of an entrepreneur begun.

It is real enjoyable reading how Tony created LinkExchange, and how he "failed" his company.

It is also enjoyable to catch a glimpse of the life of a young millionaire, and how his perspective on life changed with riches and experiences.

It is just a blast having him walk us through the conception, creation, struggle, breakthrough and success of a company (Zappos), Wisdom can be found through reliving the process with Tony's narration.

The treasure in this book however, is how it shattered the idea of how a company can be run. It challenged the way of how most company is run today, and proposed a more Wow-derful way to run a company. It showed me the real meaning of "company culture", and how and why it is so important to a company. Tony also was kind enough to show us some rope on how to install a culture in a company.

TL;DR: This book is essentially 1) Start-up walk-through + 2) Company culture for dummies

Proud feeling: It felt good to know that some millionaire on the other side of the planet approved the books that I too have read, and like a lot. Good to Great, Build to Last, Happiness Hypothesis. It stroked my pride to know that I too, in my own volition, did what the millionaire did - Tracing the science and philosophy of Happiness. (and I shall read Tribal Leadership next).


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