Working backwards : insights, stories, and secrets from inside Amazon

Bryar, Colin, author.

Book 2021

"Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives. Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. With twenty-seven years of Amazon ex...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Amazon.com (Firm) Management

Corporate culture

Decision making

Electronic commerce Management

Leadership

Success in business

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ISBN:

9781250267597

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Building blocks : leadership principles and mechanisms
Hiring : Amazon's unique bar raiser process
Organizing : separable, single-threaded leadership
Communicating : narratives and the six-pager
Working backwords : start with the desired customer experience
Metrics : manage your inputs, not your outputs
Kindle
Prime
Prime Video
AWS
Conclusion: being Amazonian beyond Amazon

LCCN:

2020037477

Control Number:

3018453

Other Authors:

Carr, Bill, 1967- author

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