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November 30: 4 Mechanisms at Amazon

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November 30: 4 Mechanisms at Amazon

Amazon has built internal mechanisms over decades. Here are four.

Danny Sheridan
Nov 30, 2022
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Source: Dave Glick
Published: October 2022

4 Mechanisms at Amazon

Single Threaded leader: a person who is focused on one and only one task and drives that full time. (Note: this is different from a single point of contact, who may have many other things going on.)

Bar Raisers: An experienced interviewer who is "anointed" to facilitate and participate in interviews outside of their direct team to "keep the bar high."

Two Pizza Teams: Teams that have a defined focus/scope and who can be fed with two pizzas, minimizing communication overhead.

Six Pagers: the process of communicating through narrative rather than slides. (Note: Six-pagers were implemented in 2005 at $8.5 billion in revenue.)


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Nicole Bradley
Nov 30, 2022

I would share that a Two Pizza Team (2PT) evolved into the Single Threaded Leadership(STL) methodology. As Dave Limp would say "The best way to fail at inventing something is by making it somebody's part-time job.

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