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Tag Archives: Bezos
Innovative Thinking at Amazon: Paying Employees $5,000 to Quit
Amazon continues to be innovative not just in technology but with management thinking. Jeff Bezos has rejected the dictates espoused most vociferously by Wall Street mouthpieces and MBAs that encourage short term thinking and financial gimmicks which harm the long … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, Innovation, management, management system, managing people, respect for people, short term thinking, Systems thinking
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Jeff Bezos: Innovation, Experiments and Long Term Thinking
Jeff Bezos, bought the Washington Post. He has long showed a willingness to take a long term view at Amazon. He is taking that same thinking to the Washington Post: In my experience, the way invention, innovation and change happen … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, Process improvement
Tagged Bezos, business, business model, Customer focus, experiments, long term thinking, PDSA, Quality tools
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Zappos and Amazon Sitting in a Tree…
Amazon is acquiring the unique company – Zappos: we have written about Zappos previously: Paying New Employees to Quit. Jeff Bezos uses the webcast above to talk to the employees of Zappos. Excellent job. The letter from Tony Hsieh, the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Deming, Fun, Innovation, Investing, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, Customer focus, customer service, Innovation, Investing, long term thinking, respect for people
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Jeff Bezos Spends a Week Working in Amazon’s Kentucky Distribution Center
Photo of Jeff Bezos during the 2005 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference by James Duncan. Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, is working for a week in Amazon’s Kentucky distribution center. I hope, and based on his past, I believe, that he is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Creativity, Customer focus, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Process improvement, Psychology, quote, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, gemba, leadership, management, Process improvement
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Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis
Using quality tools really works. Lots of people don’t use them. Improving is often not any more difficult than just applying tools that have been used for decades. Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Quality tools, Respect
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, management experts, Quality tools
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Bezos on Internet Boom
The webcast shows Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder and CEO, speaking at TED on the internet boom. He compares the boom to the gold rush highlighting the similarities. But then he compares the internet to the development of industry around electricity. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, webcast
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, internet, TED, webcast
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Amazon Innovation
I believe Amazon uses technology very well. They have done many innovative things. They have been less successful at turning their technology into big profits. But I continue to believe they have a good shot at doing so going forward Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Management, Popular
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, Innovation, internet, Software Development
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Bezos on Lean Thinking
Topic: Management Improvement and Investing 10 Questions for Jeff Bezos, time.com via Lean Manufacturing Blog Time: Here’s a question you probably hear all the time: read any good books lately? Bezos: [Laughs.] I read a book recently about Toyota’s lean … Continue reading
