Tag: Amazon
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How does Jeff Bezos spend his time?
Jeff Bezos of Amazon has a very clear view on how to dedicate his time as a leader of his business: Time working on the Future Time working in the Present How does Jeff allocate his time? 50/50? 80/20? 90/10?… What do you think is the allocation of time that Jeff aims for himself? What…
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Jeff Bezos on High Standards, and on Why you Don’t Achieve your Goals
I’ve published two videos this week. Both of these videos were inspired by Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders from last week. (The text of the letter is available below). 2 Jeff Bezos Inspired Videos The first: why do we fail to achieve our goals? The second: how do we create high standards? if you are…
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“not to fix broken things, like IT will do at a company, but build the future”.
I was reading about how the Washington Post has changed since it’s purchase by Jeff Bezos. One of the quotes in the article struck a chord with me: “not to fix broken things, like IT will do at a company, but build the future”. Jeff Bezos brought in Jarrod Dicker to run technology development at…
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Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint”
“We have study hall at the beginning of our meetings.” says Jeff Bezos. Staff meetings at Amazon begin with 30 minutes of silent reading. Powerpoint is easy for presenter, hard for audience “The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of the room and presents with a powerpoint…