Measuring principles: Are Right A Lot, Deliver Results, Earn Trust.High level guiding principles: Customer obsession, Ownership.You can read the up to date 14 leadership principles here. Some of those leadership principles later got removed and some got added. To ensure its growth is sustainable, in 2004, Amazon HR spent 9 months interviewed its effective leaders and presented core leadership principles. The Summary - Part 1 being Amazonian Chapter 1 - Building Blocks - Leadership PrinciplesĪmazon started in July 1995 and went though amazing growth in its early years from a handful to a few hundred and later hired more than 1 million people. For decisions which is controllable and reversible, bias for action and learn from doing. For those, take it slow and make decision with long thought. There are decisions you can't reverse.6 Pager is an awesome practice when making important decision.Never stop learning - Jeff Bezos learns, Amazon learns, every amazing person learns.You don't have to be super smart to do amazing things, You just have to keep trying and iterating, Like how Amazon introduced Kindle, Prime Video and AWS.They kept iterating and eventually find the best way/products work for them. But it wasn't because Amazon people are super smart, Amazon actually made many mistakes. Amazon leadership principles make sense, process are cool, products are awesome. Case studies on Amazon Kindle, Prime, Prime Video and AWS illustrated how the leadership principles and Amazon processes helped them succeed eventually.Amazon has implemented multiple processes to ensure the leadership principles are well practiced such as Hiring - Bar raiser hiring process, Organizing - Single Threaded Leadership organizing, Communication - 6 pager narrative, Customer experience - working backwards and Measuring - Focus on input metrics.Amazon's 14 leadership principles are the critical factors how it grew from an online bookstore to a trillion dollar company.It's a little lengthy, but I'm happy that I started this new journey. Here is my first book summary for Working Backwards - Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon.
Besides that, I will write book summary to help myself write and understand better.
In 2021, I read 11 books and decided to read at least 12 books every year going forward.
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