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The mentality of “managing your dependencies” is key to being a leader at Amazon. As I’ve been talking with leaders, this concept of “managing dependencies” in an aggressive manner and far beyond a normal expectation really resonates.

Livingston: What is your favorite bit of advice you'd give to a technical person who wanted to start a startup? Schachter: Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done. Do less of it; get it done. If you've got two things that you want to put together, take away until they go together. Don't add another thing. Because you can u

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First, for simple tasks—things that have less than five steps to them—I just make a decision and do them the same way every time. My keys go in the same spot every single day. Even if I forget to put them in and find them in my pocket upstairs, I go back downstairs and put them in the silver dish. The simple task system extends to everything with l

Great groups ship. “They are places of action, not think tanks or retreat centers devoted solely to the generation of ideas.” Warren characterized the successful collaborations he studied as “dreams with deadlines.