How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
David M. Rubensteinamazon.com
How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
I never chatted with Bezos about this, so I don't know if it was an explicit strategy on his part, but one of his great strengths as a communicator was the ability to encode the most important strategies for Amazon in very concise and memorable forms.
Take one example "Day 1." I don't know when he first said this to the company, but it was repeated
... See moreRemains of the Day • Compress to Impress
When I talk to people who have been building software since the 90s their biggest surprise about the B2B software market is just how big it has become. This is the difference in the Netscape versus Notion story. The internet was so much smaller in the 90s that there was just only so much room to run. Notion will not face that problem. In my opinion... See more
Evan Armstrong • How Do You Compete with Free? Notion: the embattled artist
Optimism for the future. “What’s really incredible about this is that this is Day One. This is the Kitty Hawk stage of electronic commerce. The late 20th Century is just a great time to be alive.” Realizing that he was at the very beginning and taking a long-term view let Bezos make smart strategic decisions, like selling books despite the smaller ... See more
Packy McCormick • Crypto Bezos
Most of the Daves of the world would hire you and tell you that what they need is “more new customers”. That would only make the real problem worse. Imagine instead that you intervened and helped Dave be more strategic. You asked Dave if they were open to trying something small together to see if you could bake him a bigger pie.