Dear Shareholders

Amazon - 2016


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Show Notes:

  • Maintaining a company's vitality and avoiding stagnation. 0:00

    • Jeff Bezos emphasizes the importance of maintaining a day one mindset at Amazon, even as the company grows and evolves.

    • Customer obsession and company vitality. 1:23

      • Amazon's customer obsession drives innovation and protects vitality.

      • Process ownership, customer experience, and embracing trends. 2:54

        • Inventors and designers must deeply understand customers to create remarkable products.

        • Amazon leverages machine learning to improve operations, from demand forecasting to fraud detection.

        • High-quality decision-making in business. 7:07

          • Amazon's senior team prioritizes high-velocity decision making, even for reversible decisions, to maintain energy and dynamism.

          • Decision-making at Amazon, including "disagree and commit" and escalating misalignment issues. 8:28

            • Use "disagree and commit" to save time and move forward with team's opinion, even if you don't fully agree.

            • Bezos emphasizes importance of decision velocity, not just quality, in a large company with a small company's heart.

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              Dear ShareholdersBy Brock Briggs