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Chip Conley
Thursday, October 27, 2011, 10 am Pacific, 11 am Mountain, Noon Central, 1 pm EST, 2 pm Atlantic, 7 pm Zurich, 8 pm Istanbul
Creating Happiness and Success
Bio
Chip Conley is the founder and executive chairman of Joie de Vivre, America’s second largest boutique hotel company consisting of three-dozen award-winning hotels. Chip and his company’s time-tested techniques and transformational leadership practices have been featured in Fast Company, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal. And, in 2010, Joie de Vivre was awarded the #1 customer service award in the U.S. in the Upper Upscale hotel category (by Market Metrix with JdV beating Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Sheraton, Westin, Kimpton, and Peninsula hotels).
Also a best-selling author, Chip illustrates the theory that transformed his business and shares his unique prescription for success (even in turbulent times) in his latest book PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow (Jossey-Bass 2007). Chip's fourth book, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness & Success, will be out in January 2012.
Honored in 2007 by the San Francisco Business Times as the “Most Innovative CEO” in the Bay Area, Chip is the founder of San Francisco’s annual Celebrity Pool Toss fundraiser, which has raised more than $4 million for inner city families in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. Chip received his BA and MBA from Stanford University and was bestowed an honorary doctorate in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School in 2009. http://www.chipconley.com/ and http://www.peakorganizations.com
CLICK HERE to listen to Chip Conley talk about Emotional Equations.
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Introduction
Chip Conley is the founder and executive chairman of Joie de Vivre, America’s second largest boutique hotel company consisting of three-dozen award-winning hotels. Chip and his company have been featured in Fast Company, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal. Last year, Joie de Vivre was awarded the #1 customer service award in the U.S. in the Upper Upscale hotel category, beating Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Sheraton, Westin, Kimpton, and Peninsula hotels. He received his BA and MBA from Stanford University and was bestowed an honorary doctorate in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School.
Interview Questions
I was going to ask you about how you apply Maslow's theory to running a business, which is the subject of PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow, (Jossey-Bass 2007)and then I learned about your upcoming book, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness & Success, which will be out in January 2012. Since I am now more interested in your upcoming book, and I think many of our listeners and their clients might also be interested in how to create happiness and success, I have some questions about it that I would like to ask you first. Then, if we have time, we can go back to Maslow. As career counselors and coaches we know that we are all CEOs of our own career, so now we're going to find out your tips for being CEO of your own career.
- First, who was the inpiration for your upcoming book about creating happiness and success?
- Why did you write this book?
- Which is more important, Practicing Gratitude or Pursuing Gratification, and why?
- What's the real definition of CEOs?
- You were the second largest boutique hotel owner in the country? Also, you are still young (compared to me). Why did you step down from being a CEO?
- What are you doing now?
- When should we make business decisions?
- How are orgaizations like ponds?
- What is good phycho hygiene and why is it important for CEOs to create good psycho hygiene?
- What's the difference between being a superhuman and being super human?
- What do emotions have to do with business?
- One question related to your current book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. How does Maslow's hierarchy of needs relate to running a business?
CLICK HERE to listen to Chip Conley talk about How Companies get their Mojo from Maslow.
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