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Amazon Operates by its Leadership Principles
If you haven't heard about Amazon's Leadership Principles before, go read about them on the Amazon.com job site. While many companies have a mission statement and claim to live by it, Amazon reinforces its Leadership Principles from the first review of a job candidate's resume, to evaluation of new product expansion opportunities and, of course, to annual performance reviews. They truly permeate every aspect of daily life at Amazon, and I believe that their application is one of the key …
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Why I’m Archiving Amazon.com’s History
Amazon.com holds a special place in my life. Not only has it defined my working career and developed some of my closest personal relationships, but it's also the environment where I was empowered to explore my personal limits. While I wasn't the earliest of early employees, I did join in May 1998 as a product manager, when Amazon was just a bookstore. I was one of the approximate first 100 headquarter-based employees, and I my official employee number was 996 (because Amazon already had many …