14 Amazon Leadership to Remarkable Success
14 Amazon Leadership to Remarkable Success. Jeff Bezos has built a super successful business based on 14 extremely powerful Amazon leadership principles.
What are the values that drive your work? Do they include a commitment to honesty? A desire to innovate?
What about the companies you are a part of? Do these businesses or organizations stick to a particular set of values and principles? Have these values been communicated, if established at all?
Having a strong set of values can pave the way towards success. Super successful Amazon has and operates by its own set of leadership principles–a set of principles referred to during company decision-making, problem-solving, simple brainstorming, and even hiring.
I have personally had good fortune to work with a number of executives within Amazon, and I can vouch for the fact that they live these principles every day of the week. These leaders set the bar high, then they constantly raise it.
Whether you’re interviewing for a job at Amazon–or crafting a list of values for your own business–check out the 14 leadership principles Amazon workers refer to on a daily basis:
Customer Obsession.
Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
Ownership.
Leaders are owners. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job.”
Invent and Simplify.
Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by “not invented here.” As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.
