🎙️ #7 Principles: Human Centered Priorities - Invest in People

In this episode of The Open Shelf, we explore the principle that should guide every leader: "Take care of the people, the products, and the profits, in that order." Through three transformative books, we discover why people-first leadership isn't just good ethics, it's strategic business.

In this deep dive, we explore how to build competitive advantage through human capital investment:

✅ Tony Hsieh's "Delivering Happiness" - the culture-first approach that built Zappos into a $1.2 billion company (acquired by Amazon)
✅ John Kay's "The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century" - why your team's expertise IS your competitive advantage in the digital era
✅ Simon Sinek's "Leaders Eat Last" - the neurochemical science behind why some teams pull together and others don't
✅ Practical strategies for making the business case for training budgets to leadership
✅ How employee happiness directly impacts productivity and organisational success

Chapters:
🔹 00:00 - Intro
🔹 01:37 - Delivering Happiness
🔹 07:58 - The Corporation of the 21st Century
🔹 13:31 - Leaders Eat Last
🔹 22:17 - Discussion
🔹 33:47 - Outro

Goodreads Links:
📖 Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh

• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness

📖 The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong by John Kay

• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203173539-the-corporation-in-the-21st-century

📖 Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek

• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16144853-leaders-eat-last

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