Invent and Wander. Featured articles by Amazon creator Jeff Bezos (Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos)
This is a joint book by Jeff Bezos and Walter Isaacson, the author of popular biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and others. It's definitely worth reading.
- In it, a cool introduction from Walter, where he vividly talks about Jeff as a person who can be put on a par with the other heroes of his books.
- Walter gives the floor to Jeff, who tells the story of Amazon in annual shareholder letters.
- And it ends with separate stories of Jeff on different topics, such as trust, resourcefulness, competition, harmony of work and personal life.
In general, I was interested in reading the book, but in the end I was a little tired of the same stories and narratives. For example, in the book there are different variations of history. Obsession with customers, not competitors
- about Jeff still having the day. 1When you are still not bronze and actively changing and growing (The alternative is a day. 2When you rested on your laurels) Reversible and irreversible decisions and their different processes Lack of presentations and one-pager and six-pager writing culture About innovation and risk, and how he made the best decisions with his heart
- about the mechanics of the platform, which he extols talking about the marketplace, the program Fulfillment by Amazon and Amazon Prime
- about how AWS came about (Amazon Web Services)prickly 7 He had no competitors in the past, and how he managed to get ahead.
- about the importance of common tools and approaches, about RnD and innovation in engineering research - by the way, I'm already talking about this. told A few months ago I wrote to shareholders for 2010 year How Blue Origin came to be and why humanity should go to space
P.S. Nana Ozon This book can now be purchased for 162 ruble and although translation in places and terrible (especially about IT)But you can read it.
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