This week two Amazon alums, Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, published a book called Working Backwards that walks in detail through how the company arrived at such singular practices. During that time, executives quietly read six-page narrative memos presenting the matter to be discussed. Perhaps most famous of them is the fact that important meetings at Amazon begin with 20 minutes of silence. Much of the coverage of Jeff Bezos’s recent announcement that he plans to cede the CEO role at Amazon noted the retailer’s idiosyncratic corporate practices. You can always reach out to us at with any questions. (You can always easily unsubscribe.) If you are a subscriber, this will just verify your email address. They demonstrate that success on Amazon's scale is not achieved by the genius of any single leader, but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously-executed principles and practices-shared here for the very first time'- Provided by publisher.If you’re not already subscribed to our free email newsletter with more content like this, this will sign you up for it. Working Backwards is a practical guidebook and a corporate narrative, filled with the authors' in-the-room recollections of what 'Being Amazonian' is like and how it has affected their personal and professional lives. Bryar and Carr explain the set of ground-level practices that ensure these are translated into action and flow through all aspects of the business. With keen analysis and practical steps for applying it at your own company-no matter the size-the authors illuminate how Amazon's fourteen leadership principles inform decision-making at all levels and reveal how the company's culture has been defined by four characteristics: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them, much of it in the early aughts-a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services to life-Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined, articulated, and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable. 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. Colin started at Amazon in 1998 Bill joined in 1999.

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