Amazons leadership principles are great actually, I still have a card sized copy with me years later. Thing is, as all more culture realted things, they are a

Amazons leadership principles are great actually, I still have a card sized copy with me years later. Thing is, as all more culture realted things, they are a two-edged sword and up for interpretation. And that allows to use them in a malicious way (this cultural aspect, PIPs and the preformance review cycles, is really bad, I agree). A ls always, just how those principles are applied depends a lot on leadership, some are great other not. Amazon's problem is, the normal bell curve of leadership talent gets tranformed into a bath tub curve by their hirong and promotion standards: You either have great people at the top end or bad ones at the other wothout any mediocre ones balancing and cushioning this.