Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by alanfalcon on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:00AM
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Zappos CS, front office, creative staff (etc.) got to keep their culture. Zappos warehouse workers got shafted.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by jhall1468 on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:41PM
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Blame Hsieh. He is given carte blanche over Zappos as long as he meets his revenue targets. Full stop.
Would it be possible to expound on this comment with a decent source (first party is totally okay!)?
I ask not as a personal attack on your credibility, this comment just seems a bit inconsistent with the Holacracy movement that he championed a couple of years back.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by 20years on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:51PM
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Not sure how well that Holacracy movement is doing for them
http://fortune.com/zappos-tony-hsieh-holacracy/
https://qz.com/849980/zappos-is-struggling-with-holacracy-be...
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/zappos-...
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by alanfalcon on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:26PM
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https://pando.com/2012/06/06/zappos-hands-over-warehousing-t... - as you can see, the warehouse isn't included in any of the good stuff, it was just unceremoniously handed over to Amazon to be run as Amazon warehouses are run.
I agree that this is inconcsistent with the Holacracy movement (even if the move preceded the movement officially, clearly these workers were never fully Zappos employees in Tony's eyes, which is sad).
Whether Bezos treats Whole Foods the same probably depends on whether he has confidence in existing management. It's also possible he has ambitions to totally remake WF into something else. In that case, it doesn't matter what managers are there because Bezos wanted the Whole Foods market presence and not the management team.