Amazon’s Leadership Principles, or LPs help its employees hold themselves and each other accountable, through tangible and measurable qualities that guide and lead decision-making, with customers at the forefront. This article will focus on the principle of Invent and Simplify. What is invent and simplify? Amazon’s official quote for this principle is: Leaders expect and require […]
Courtesy of Fact of Day 1 A RACI chart is a matrix used to assign roles and responsibilities for milestones of a project. Mapping out ownership eliminates the confusion of “who’s doing what?” Responsible: The team member owning completion. Accountable: The team member who validates the deliverable before it’s deemed complete. Consulted: The people who […]
Looking back on the first few programs I’ve executed at Amazon, one of the critical pieces is communicating and collaborating with the right stakeholders. Picking up programs mid-way, I can’t count how many new stakeholders come out of the woodwork that was not initially identified by the original program manager, resulting in additional re-alignment effort, […]
In this #AmazonMechanism post, human error is inevitable. Amazon uses a mechanism called correction of error (CO) which identifies the issue, measures the customer impact, asks questions (the 5 why’s) about how it happened, and generates action items to ensure the error never happens again. (Dave Anderson, Scarlet Ink)
An instrument for decomposing complex problems into simplified solutions, is the strategy of first principles thinking, often otherwise known as reasoning from first principles, and is often leveraged by self-made geniuses such as Elon Musk. In other words, a form of mental reverse engineering. Techtello best puts it as realigning your mindset to demarcate from […]
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