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Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader
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Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader

by John Rossman
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 39m
English
McGraw-Hill
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Don’t Let Your Organizational Structure and Titles Get in the Way

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

—Brooks Atkinson

What is Amazon’s senior leadership’s biggest concern for their business? A competitor? Cybersecurity? Government regulation or interfer-ence? They certainly take all of these into account as they execute their seemingly unstoppable march to change every industry in the world. However, I believe the threat of creating a bureaucratic quagmire that bogs down the innovation machine driving Amazon is their greatest concern.

Bureaucracy is ...

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