Speaker Series: Happiness Delivered by Tony Hsieh
A few months ago, I picked up Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's book "Delivering Happiness". After reading the entire book in one sitting, I was absolutely convinced that Tony should be an inDay speaker at LinkedIn. There are so many similarities between Zappos and LinkedIn - from our intense focus on our members and customers to our commitment to nurturing an incredible employee culture.
So my colleague Matthew Shoup and I started encouraging folks around the company to email and tweet our ask to Tony. We even had an ad with Tony's picture on it that we were planning to show the next time he logged onto LinkedIn. Luckily, before that panned out, our founder Reid Hoffman sealed the deal with Tony and he came to LinkedIn last Friday to speak to a standing room only crowd at our Mountain View headquarters. The response from my coworkers was resoundingly positive, with "awesome" being the most common word used to describe the talk. This experience really showed me just how uniquely empowering LinkedIn's culture is, that a determined passionate group of employees could so easily get support from the top to help us cross the finish line.