A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from Andy containing a link. That link took me to an article called Amazon.com: Earth’s Biggest Anything Store Driven by “Two-Pizza Teams”. It simply explains some of the reasons why Amazon works so well. It’s a pretty interesting read.
Check it out for yourself http://www.good2work.com/article/1324. Or if you are not in the mood for much reading, here are the best bits.
“Amazon.com is one of the Web pioneers – along with eBay, Yahoo, and Google, but Jeff Bezos is the only founder in that row who’s still running his company as CEO”. *Cough* I think you’ll find that you can put Team Rubber next to amazon on that one! In fact we can go one better, all three of the founders are still running the company. Not that I enjoy bragging or anything…
“Jeff Bezos has promoted innovative efforts among his employees through the Just Do It program, which rewards those who come up with and execute ideas that help the company without first obtaining permission from their bosses”.
“One more remarkable feature of Amazon’s corporate culture is fun, cultivated and cherished by Bezos himself. Fun is a good way to keep everyone’s enthusiasm and make people really love their work”.
“No, communication is terrible!”
