Amazon is usually admired for its massive scale, obsession with serving customers and founder Jeff Bezos’ relentless entrepreneurial spirit.
What doesn’t get discussed as often is the management principles and strategies that are the backbone of this organisation. The tenets that provide the infrastructure on which the Amazon empire has been built.
However Amazon’s management philosophy and organisational tactics and strategies played a critical role in getting Amazon to where it is today - and continue to be one of the keys to its ongoing success.
The company’s approach to everything from launching new businesses and benchmarking progress to fueling innovation is both awe inspiring - and daunting!
Few understand the inner workings of Amazon’s management principles better than John Rossman, a former Amazon executive who lead the development of the Amazon marketplace in its formative years.
He worked with Jeff Bezos and other senior members of the company’s leadership as they implemented management concepts and tactics that were at least as innovative and groundbreaking as the company’s business model itself.
John understands Amazon’s unique business principles so well that he wrote a book about them.
Today John joins us here on A Seat at The Table to give us an insiders view of Amazon, and to discuss his new book “The Amazon Way”.
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Now let’s sit down with John and learn about what Amazon does differently - and why it works.
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John Rossman's blog: www.the-amazon-way.com
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