Sleep. Calm. Prioritizing. Quality over quantity. Recognizing limits. These are the kinds of principles that have made him a wild success in the long run. I think we’d all do well to mimic these practices.
The Bezos way: sleep, puttering, and three high-quality decisions a day
Of all of the FAANG leaders, Bezos feels the most interesting to me (and maybe the most dangerous?).
Greater diversity brings new perspectives on markets and improved problem-solving skills. It also facilitates critical thinking. It is also shown to increase firm innovation through a diverse board’s ability to respond more creatively to changes in global markets and customer needs — women are now involved in 80% of consumer goods purchased and by 2025 women are predicted to account for 60% of all personal wealth.
It is the principle that bad news tends to accrue at a lower management level, because no one wants to be the person who moves a project risk marker from ‘yellow’ to ‘red’ on a RAG chart. As a result, pessimism and a belief that the project will overrun ‘bubbles up’ to a certain decision-making level but never beyond, as if hitting the thermal layer that exists in the ocean. Eventually, the issues reach critical mass and force their way through, leaving senior management wonder why everything ‘suddenly’ went wrong, when in fact the signs that the project was troubled existed at a lower level for some time.
Insta-buy when I heard @merlinmann mention this on Back to Work. Love, love, love this game..
First day back at work after two weeks off introducing this little angel to the world. Guess being a parent is always having a little bit of your heart somewhere else.
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