The Origins of Leadership Principles
Source: The Everything Store Published: 2016
Source: The Everything Store
Published: 2016
The Origins of Leadership Principles
Circulated: January 15, 2019
Amazon’s purchase of Telebuch in Germany and BookPages in the UK in 1998 gave Bezos and Alison Allgor (HR) an opportunity to articulate the company’s core principles. They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room:
customer obsession
frugality
bias for action
ownership
high bar for talent
innovation (added later)