1- You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you 2- Take pride in your choices, not your gifts 3- Be right a lot 4- Be stubborn on vision and flexible on details 5- Failure and invention are inseparable twins 6- Two pizza teams 7- Memos, not PowerPoints
elaborating on why according to Bezos.... 2- don't squander your gifts, it still takes effort to use them in constructive way 3- Be right a lot by listening, being flexible and non-egostical, e.g. challenge your own assumptions and changing your mind often as you grow and learn from reanalysing or from new data 4- Don't be afraid to realise your path is wrong and do a course-correct, in fact this is essential for ensuring you reach the final destination 5- Failure is embarassing for adults, but is actually how we learn when growing up, and this is also true as adults, so embrace failure as the natural way to learn and grow, get it wrong a few times in order to get it right 6- We have evolved to communicate most naturally and comfortably in groups of 10 to 12 people, so subdivide large teams into these smaller groups and intra-group communication will occur naturally and easily 7- Memos contain verbs, topic sentences, properly explained points, giving the readers a good explanation while making the author clarify and explain which allows for a good discussion after 30 mins of reading the memo at the start of the meeting, whereas powerpoints often get interrupted by the audience and go into less details
Gold to hear the thoughts behind these prescribed principles I love the pizza principle, encouraging failure, and was surprised he didn't mention the long term, one of his favorite principles, one of the most important ones as well
This is sooo good! Thank you Jeff! Kudos!! My saying , that I have shared numerous times with my kids~ " a choice made in a few seconds could effect every moment of the rest of your life! Make your choices well!"
I think that the spirit of what he was saying is more... if a choice made in a few seconds turns out to be the wrong one, don't sweat it as you can change your mind and make a different choice. We have to make some wrong choices to figure out the best right choices. So don't be afraid to experiment and make those wrong choices, then course-correct each time until you find the best way. Your ethos seems to be 'be cautious of making the wrong choice as this could affect the rest of your life' which is the opposite of what Bezos is saying. He is saying putting yourself out there and making mistakes is the only way to grow and end up on the right path, and also to embrace this and not see wrong choices as negatives, but as opportunities to course-correct.
Don't forget a childlike willingness to FAIL. We left Detroit, because we "failed" to enjoy factory work. We live in a tropical area now. But hatas not all...😀Great advice!
Trust, Respect and Sincerety must go together. thank you do much for wonderful words i love you boss i appreciate you i will continue my work hard ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
What is up here? Two pizza teams??? I cracked up. "If you need a 3rd pizza the team's probably too big." To think Jeff Bezos 'thinks in pizzas' when he decides team size is HI-Larious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Good leaders are right a lot” no they END UP right a lot - because they ultimately change their mind on things - they do the unnatural thing to disconfirm their beliefs.. and get new data or re analyze situation
If only it were so easy to find your passion so simply. If you were smart you would realise and that he’s saying you essentially fail and grow into your passion.
You can’t force your self to be passionate about something you aren’t, instead you’ll find something that drives you. You can’t make that decision, it’s made for you.
Incredibly insightful. Being a successful leader myself (certainly not at a Bezos level) I can assure you his advice is absolutely spot on. Especially about constantly evaluating your core beliefs and migrating your positions as required.
Jeff you look amazing there. I don't think you realise, exactly what a really decent guy you are, i wish i could help you see this. I think your great, fancy you, dare i say love you, absolutely heart breaking crazy for you. Just want you to be happy, x
Who on earth wold listen to a person who can't even manage a personal relationship. Anyone can do well in business when they are single minded. Managing both a family and a business successfully is unique in the business world and Bezos didn't manage that at all.
He was married for 25 years before they decided to separate. This is part of life and happens to many other couples. I’ll never understand people who despise others and find any reason to look down on them, just because they happen to be more successful in life.
Garret, Too much to write here. Briefly, all the lying, the hypocrisy, double talk, pomposity, was beyond sickening.....All for playing by the rules. I have a newspaper interested in our story now. I was told verbatim from an Amazon manager. "We're Amazon.com. We can do whatever we want to do." .....I just hope to spread the word that all is not what it appears to be when you Pro Sell for them.
You're incredibly stupid if you think that. He graduated from Harvard as valedictorian. What have you done? Don't be mad just because you aren't successful and that man is. I'm sure if you held the same achievements as him and put in actual effort you would've made something from your life too.
