Leadership

Amazon’s Leadership Principles

The following is my abridgment of Amazon’s “Leadership Principles”.

Leaders:

• start with the customer and work backwards (Customer Obsession)
• are owners (Ownership)
• Invent and Simplify
• use judgement and instinct to understand when they are right or wrong (Are Right, A Lot)
• continue to Learn and Be Curious
• Hire and Develop the Best
• Insist on the Highest Standards
• Think Big
• prefer calculated risks to inaction (Bias for Action)
• accomplish more with less (Frugality)
• Earn Trust
• operate at any and all levels (Dive Deep)
• challenge decisions when they disagree, and do not compromise for comfort (Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit)
• Deliver Results

TODO

• Military leadership definitions
• Leadership vs. Management

REFERENCES

Army Leadership. Army Doctrine Publication No. 6-22. Headquarters, Department of the Army. 2012-08-01.

How to Win Friends & Influence People. Dale Carnegie. 1937.

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t. Simon Sinek. 2014-01-07.

Leadership Principles. Amazon.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Patrick Lencioni. 2002-04-11.

The New One Minute Manager. Ken Blanchard & Johnson Spencer. 2015-04-05.