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>Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. Perhaps we can refine the principle even more "Good engineers are
by teleforce 2y ago
>Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”.
Perhaps we can refine the principle even more "Good engineers are good leaders" since many of the world's top companies' CEO are engineers [1].
As excellent examples Amazon's CEO and CTO for a very long time are engineers. Werner Vorgels was the PhD student of Prof. Tanembaum with that authored popular OS and Computer Networks textbooks.
[1] Top CEOs have this degree:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680308
- a-priori 2y agoThe way it was explained to me when I was at Amazon is that the intent of that principle is that good leaders should “make themselves correct” by gathering the data they need to have well informed judgement. So in retrospect they’re “right a lot” because they actively seek to align themselves with reality and therefore are better able to predict the outcomes of their work.