Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (US)

I read this from 13 - 20 May 2022
It took me quite a while to finish this ‘heavy’ book. Tq to my friend who suggested this book, wch makes me i idolized amazon and bezos more 🤪

The content is quite ‘technical’and it jives with Bezonomic book where Bezos is a long-term believer, frugal and patient . If you can withstand those, you can consider working with Amazon

Im impressed with their principle of customer-obsessed instead of competitor-obsessed. Which you can apply this principle in life. You compete with the right metric. And Amazon choose their metric carefully, by controlling input instead of output.
And of course their super-stringent hiring process wch they called bar riser.
And then single threaded leadership- wch calls for less dependency.
6 pager summary for better clarity.
Aah! Major love!

Excellent book that really gets into some practices that we've all read about, but not fully understood what makes them work. For example: 2 pizza teams. These sound great, but only work when the teams can function independently and don't rely on other teams. Instead of increasing communication, AMZN reduced it. There is great history here, and a good look at AMZN's core practices. But the book also shows that you just can't introduce ideas (2 pizza teams, Single Threaded Leadership, 6 pg memo's) without the culture and structure that allow them to work. With Andy Jassy's recent promotion it's good to read about the genesis of AWS. The book is well written and meaty - not a lot of old bromides and biz speak.