Working For Jeff Bezos

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I’m reading Amazon’s Management System by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. I absolutely love this excerpt:

As former Amazon executive John Rossman put it: “If you want to succeed in Jeff’s relentless and fiercely competitive world, you cannot:

• Feel sorry for yourself

• Give away your power

• Shy away from change

• Waste energy on things you cannot control

• Worry about pleasing others

• Fear taking calculated risks

• Dwell on the past

• Make the same mistakes over and over

• Resent others’ success

• Give up after failure

• Feel the world owes you anything; or

• Expect immediate results

The most successful are those who can excel in the pressure cooker, week in and week out, shaking off the occasional failure and the subsequent tongue-lashing, put their heads down, and keep on driving.”

This is a near perfect description of the best people I’ve worked with over the years.