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What a shoe shop can teach us about developing high
performance culturesDavid Wilkinson
The Oxford Review
www.oxford-review.com
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1999
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2009 - $1.2bn!
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How did it grow from $8m sales
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How did it grow from $8m sales
to over $1bnin less than 8 years?
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2 overarching principles that drove Zappos’ success:
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2 overarching principles that drove Zappos’ success:
1. Culture and2. High performing teams
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employees are specifically trained for the culture
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Their staff turnover is around 7% whilst the industry average is over 150%.
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culture eats strategy for breakfast
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Culture Strategy
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“…aligning the • style of the leaders, with the • mission, • strategy and • what the employees actually do.
It’s a whole package”
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Culture Culture Culture
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"...organizational culture is basically a term used to describe the environment in which people work and the influence it has on how they think, act and experience work"
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Dysfunctional cultures can develop • stress, • distrust, • low morale, • a lack of sense of ‘team’, • a feeling that they aren’t supported or cared for, • a lack of listening, • minimise learning, or • make the learning either a negative experience or dysfunctional itself and • resist change
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A productive culture on the other hand
• inspires, • helps to develop openness, • builds trust, • enhances performance, • fosters developmental feedback, • gets people to push themselves to be better and do better, • boosts self-esteem, • inspires a willingness to learn, • flex, • innovate and • be genuine.
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Hsieh became Zappos’ CEO in 2001
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3 principles:
1. Employee happiness2. Exceptional customer service and 3. High performance
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There are five ‘drivers’ that shaped Zappos’ culture:
1. Committed leaders2. Practised core values3. Customer focused strategy4. HR practices aligned with the core values5. Management practices aligned with the core values
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1.Leadership passion and focus2.Energised happy workers and 3.Genuine focus on exceeding the needs of the customer
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People need to be aligned behind a common purpose that they believe in before they will drive and strive to
fulfil it.
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And for Zappos that common purpose is making the customer happy
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“Culture is everything”
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The job of the leaders at Zappos is to:
• think about the culture, • to support it and • maintain or improve it.
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Openness, honesty and feedback
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Culture inquiry
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In 2010 Zappos codified its ten core values:
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1. Deliver WOW through service
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2. Embrace and drive change
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3. Create fun and a little weirdness
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4. Be adventurous, creative and open-minded
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5. Pursue growth and learning
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6. Build open and honest relationships with communication
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7. Build a positive team and family spirit
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8. Do more with less
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9. Be passionate and determined
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10. Be humble
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Zappos’ customer focused strategy is:
1. Customer service should be a priority for everyone2. Enable Service Reps to solve customer issues without
involving a supervisor3. Don’t keep customers who are overly demanding or
disrespectful to employees4. Don’t restrict Service Reps regarding call time, scripts,
or sales pitches5. Connect directly with customers and make contact
information available on every web page6. See customer service as an investment, not a cost7. Reinforce the culture by sharing great service stories
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HR practices
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The management
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Reference Warrick, D. D., Milliman, J. F., & Ferguson, J. M. (2016). Lessons learned from Zappos on what it takes to build high performance cultures. Organizational Dynamics.
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