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Bezos on setting high standards and clear expectations

• galoisscobi 4y ago
  Leaders have relentlessly high standards. Of themselves? No, of ICs. I have heard too many horror stories from friends at Amazon and how so many deadlines were made up, pushing engineers to burn out, engineers cutting corners to ship stuff and managers getting praise for "driving results". I think high standards should go both ways and engineers should have mechanisms to hold their management chain accountable in substantial ways.
  • sherilm 4y ago
    Agreed. It cuts both ways. Any idea even with positive intentions can be abused when taken to the extremes. That's what typically happens when the means becomes the end itself.
  • aynsof 4y ago
    That's covered by the new Leadership Principle to be Earth's best employer /s.
• jarl-ragnar 4y ago
  I’d encourage anyone who sets high standards for themselves and others to listen to this from Jonny Wilkinson https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-high-performance-podcast/id1500444735?i=1000491917639 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-high-performance-p...
• dqpb 4y ago
  He sells cheap counterfeit Chinese products, and children’s toys laced with lead. What’s this about high standards?
• giomasce 4y ago
  I'm surprised Bezos is not writing on setting decent wages for his workers...
• m0llusk 4y ago
  It is interesting how the Musk approach of setting extreme goals and building powerful teams to reach them ends up assembling organizations that are completely different from what Bezos puts together.