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• Anyone who is lucky enough to lead a successful company very quickly senses the impossibility of scaling one’s own time to all corners of the organization, but Jeff was laser focused on the more serious problem that presented, that of maintaining consistent strategy in all important decisions, many of which were made outside his purview each day. A...
• Wei describes how Bezos used a simple trick: compression. Yup, using alliterations (ahem, RadReads) and acronyms Bezos was able “to encode the most important strategies for Amazon in very concise and memorable forms.”
• You’ve probably heard of “Day 1.” Bezos has said the phrase so often (both internally and in his shareholder letters, which themselves have become pop culture “must reads”) that it’s defined by what happens after: Day 2. So what happens Day 2? Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. A...
• The imprint of scaled communication is all over Amazon, whether it’s naming each year based on a company goal, the 2 Pizza Rule (for meeting size) and starting meetings with 30 minutes of quiet reading. And as a product manager, indie maker or lawyer – effective communication is a powerful skill, one that’s rich with leverage.
• Admittedly, the link here to $10,000/hour work here becomes a bit tenuous. But know this: if you’re able to be a tiny bit better, each day, time is the ultimate leverage. Whether it’s investing in a 529 plan before your kids are born, an hour of reading a day (a la Bill Gates) or sharpening your pricing, negotiation or communication skills – the pa...

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