We're back this week with another Greenhouse Effect favorite: Steve's interview last spring with Ari Weinzweig, Zingerman's Co-Founder!//Many leaders who build something as successful as Zingerman’s end up trapped in a life that serves their work. Ari has built a famous business while still maintaining the customer experience and the life he really wants. And it was possible because he wrote a vision on paper.
Along with his partner Paul Saginaw, Ari started Zingerman’s Delicatessen in 1982 with a $20,000 bank loan, a staff of two, a small selection of great-tasting specialty foods and a relatively short sandwich menu. Today, Zingerman’s experiences over 500,000 visitors every year, has 700+ employees, and over $65M in sales.
Ari discusses how writing a personal vision is the key. And how it has always related to the stuff that every progressive business writer touches on now:
Employee engagement
Treating people like they’re intelligent
People don’t do good work if they don’t believe in what they’re doing
Self-organizing work teams
Not getting into hierarchical models
Not overusing authority
Involve people in designing the systems they’re going to be a part of
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Book recommendation: Leadership Is an Art by Max De Pree
Links from the show:
Zingtrain Leadership & Business Training Experience
Zingerman’s Press
The Secret Pamphlets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TPm1EZR7Mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIjD-EMKd1c
http://www.zingermanscommunity.com/press/bios-of-key-people/#ari
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