Uncontainable, Kip Tindell
Uncontainable, Kip Tindell
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Uncontainable
How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives

Author: Kip Tindell, Paul Keegan, Casey Shilling

Narrator: Kip Tindell

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2014


Synopsis

Kip Tindell, the founder and CEO of The Container Store, reveals the seven secrets to keeping both customers AND employees happy and all fully engaged.

"You're going to sell what? Empty Boxes?"

Back in 1978, Kip Tindell (Chairman & CEO of The Container Store) and his partners had the vision that people were eager to find solutions to save both space and time - and they were definitely onto something. A new category of the retailing industry was born - storage and organization. Today, with stores nationwide and with more than 5,000 loyal employees, the company couldn't be stronger. Over the years, The Container Store has been lauded for its commitment to its employees and focus on its original concept and inventory mix as the formula for its success. But for Tindell, the goal never has been growth for growth's sake. Rather, it is to adhere to the company's values-based business philosophies, which center on an employee-first culture, superior customer service and strict merchandising. The Container Store has been named on Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies To Work For" list for 15 consecutive years. Even better, The Container Store has millions of loyal customers.

In Uncontainable, Tindell reveals his approach for building a business where everyone associated with it thrives through embodying the tenets of Conscious Capitalism. Tindell's seven Foundation Principles are the roadmap that drives everyone at The Container Store to achieve the goals of the company. Uncontainable shows how other businesses can adapt this approach toward what Tindell calls the most profitable, sustainable and fun way of doing business. Tindell is that rare CEO who fully embraces the "Golden Rule" of business - where all stakeholders - employees, customers, vendors, shareholder, the community - are successful through a harmonic balance of win-wins.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Doug on November 21, 2014

Don't make me gag. I wanted to love this book, and was sure I would -- I even recommended it to someone prior to reading it. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to admire here, and I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with almost everything he had to say. But in between the points that I agreed with......more

Goodreads review by InvestingByTheBooks.com on August 20, 2018

Only one thing prevents this book from being invited to the same table as “Straight from the gut”, “Good to great” and other business biography luminaries. And that one thing is, unfortunately, the ultimate success for the employee- and customer satisfaction based business described in the book: The......more

Goodreads review by Fred on December 26, 2014

As a writer, Kip is a great retailer! His style is loaded with superlatives, absolutes and needless repetition but his enthusiasm is contagious and the story of the building of the Container Store chain is interesting. (If you have never been to one, seek one out. You're in for a treat!) One reason I......more

Goodreads review by Mtbike40 on December 21, 2014

I think that reading books about how a company was built upon the dreams of a group of people are amazing and provide us each with valuable life lessons. This book about the container store provides great lessons about how they have built their business by focusing on the customer, providing extraor......more

Goodreads review by Laura on February 05, 2016

Definitely one of the lighter business books out there.. A great read on the success and enviable culture of The Container Store.......more


Quotes

"The Chairman and CEO of The Container Store Kip Tindell's new book, Uncontainable, is in the tradition of Yvon Chouinard's Let My People Go Surfing, Blake Mycoskie's Start Something That Matters, and Muhammad Yunus's Building Social Business. These are all leaders who believe that treating people with respect is the path to true success and have spread that message in really good books . . . In Uncontainable, Tindell clearly lays out The Container Store's path to streamlining that hard work, and he does it with writing as passionate and purposeful as you will find in any business book you'll read this year, or next year, or the year after that, or..."—800-CEO-READ

"The book is an enjoyable read that doesn't uniformly fall into the sometimes dry and buttoned-up business management genre. Tindell and his co-authors offer creative company-culture secrets and tips of the trade that can be applied to businesses in other industries. And, the book's jovial tone should be taken as a nod to the oft-overlooked idea that running a business can be fun, too."—D CEO Magazine