Working Backwards

Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

De: Colin Bryar, Bill Carr

Narrado por: Bill Carr, Colin Bryar, Robert Petkoff

This program includes a preface read by the authors.

Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.

Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them, much of it in the early aughts—a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services to life—Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined, articulated, and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable.

With keen analysis and practical steps for applying it at your own company—no matter the size—the authors illuminate how Amazon’s fourteen leadership principles inform decision-making at all levels and reveal how the company’s culture has been defined by four characteristics: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. Bryar and Carr explain the set of ground-level practices that ensure these are translated into action and flow through all aspects of the business.

Working Backwards is a practical guidebook and a corporate narrative, filled with the authors’ in-the-room recollections of what “Being Amazonian” is like and how it has affected their personal and professional lives. They demonstrate that success on Amazon’s scale is not achieved by the genius of any single leader, but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously-executed principles and practices—shared here for the very first time.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

Interesting to hear from insiders

The book has a serious structure to the content with plenty of examples of how the organization built it's culture and created an amazing business. While that was interesting, I was disappointed the authors were not more courageous in giving their opinion on the current state of the business in terms of creating a somewhat challenging environment for employees. They took credit for it's creation, and not the responsibility for it's impact.

Great book

You can easily rely the content of this book to your individual situation. Really good .

Insightful

As an Amazonian I found this book incredibly insightful and inspiring. These stories reflect on how todays Amazon was built and how you can achieve it for your own company.

Must read

If you are an ex, current, or future business owner, this book is a must read.

Informative and stories that can be implemented

As a small business owner, I wasn't sure if stories and secrets from one of the largest and most successful companies could be implemented into my business. But I was tuned in and listening closely from the start. I was constantly writing notes and going back to certain sections listening again to make sure I understood completely what they said worked, and what didn't work for them. There are so many secrets and tips that any size business could incorporate into their operation...both short and long term. It's easy to follow along and gives great perspectives from two people who experienced some principles that Amazon still uses these days.