Here is an abridged rundown of the “Our Leadership Principles” section of the Amazon career site: • Managers at Amazon AMZN, +0.35% are expected to focus primarily on the customer and to “work backward” from that point. • Company leaders take ownership of the company’s overall destiny and practice founder Jeff Bezos’s famed long-term focus (vis-a-vis short-term results). • Leaders at Amazon are continuously not just innovating but simplifying. • Amazon’s successful leaders are “right, a lot,” meaning they have strong instinct and judgment and seek diverse views and “work to disconfirm their beliefs” in that process. • Managers are expected to hire strong talent and, in turn, to develop those hires into leaders. • Amazon, anticipating a common criticism, concedes that “many people may think [its ‘relentlessly high’] standards are unreasonably high,’ but instructs leaders to raise the bar “continually.” • Leaders at Amazon are directly warned against thinking small. • Amazon decision makers are instructed to take calculated risks in the service of speedy action. • Be frugal, as no “extra points” are awarded for “growing headcount, budget size or fixed expense.” • Stay curious and keep learning. • Amazon leaders are to earn trust, with vocalized self-criticism — even if awkward or embarrassing — presented as one means of achieving that end. • Amazon leaders view no task as “beneath them” as they “operate at all levels” to “stay connected to the details.” • Leaders at Amazon have “backbone,” which enables them to challenge and disagree — again, even when doing so is “uncomfortable.” They don’t compromise for the sake of compromise, but when a decision is reached “they commit wholly.” • Amazon leaders deliver results by focusing on “key inputs” and never settling for less than the “right quality” delivered in “timely fashion.”
At least Bezos cares ..sure ... lol http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/technology/amazon-bezos-workplace-management-practices.html?_r=0