Incorporate Amazon's leadership principles into your company
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- Obsess over customers. Pay attention to your customers' interests and demands. Determine the ways to gain their trust and act upon them.
- Act on behalf of the entire company. Every time you make a decision, make sure to always think long-term and never sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.
- Innovate and simplify. Foster innovation within your team. Be open to new opportunities and ideas, and always find ways to simplify.
- Be right a lot. As a leader, you need to have strong judgment and good instincts. You also need to seek diverse perspectives to disconfirm their beliefs.
- Learn and be curious. Keep on learning and always seek to improve yourself. Look for new ideas and focus on exploring possibilities.
- Hire and develop the best. Raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion, recognizing exceptional talent and coaching others.
- Insist on the highest standards. To deliver high-quality products, services, and processes, you need to have high standards and encourage your team to do the same.
- Think big. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results by thinking differently and looking around corners to serve customers.
- Be biased for action. Take calculated risks and act quickly, as many decisions and actions are reversible.
- Be frugal. Learn to accomplish more with less. Use constraints to breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention.
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