747: WORKSHOP Anarchism is Business with Ari Weinzweig

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Like most success stories, Ari Weinzweig's started over a casual conversation and a beer, with his now partner Paul Saginaw, about their dream business. In 1982, those casual conversations began to manifest into what was then Zingerman's Delicatessen. Today, Zingerman's is much more than a deli; it is a community of businesses, which consist of the following services: catering, event planning, bakery, baking classes, creamery, mail ordering, ZingTrain, restaurant, coffee-house, and candy manufacturer. These business combined, do over 35,000,000 in annual sales.

Check out Zingtrain here.

Check out the Zingerman's Community of Businesses here.

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Show notes…

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Favorite success quote or mantra:

• "Anarchism is the freest possible expression of all the latent powers of the individual." Everyone in an organization can feel that what they do, no matter how menial, can feel like artistic expression.

Four main points to kick off today's discussion:

1. The point of the organization is to make the lives of the people who are working there better.
2. The more you involve the people that you work with in helping run the business, the better it will be. No one likes to follow directions without purpose or a point to what they’re doing.
3. Everybody that you work with and everybody that you know, even the ones that make you crazy, actually have a lot of wisdom that could help us run the business and the community better.
4. When you treat people like interchangeable machine parts they don’t like it; nobody likes it. People want to be honored for who they are.

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Huge thanks to Ari Weinzweig for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time!

 

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