Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader

In this Audiobook

• Idea 1 - Reset Your Clocks—Your Journey Will Not Be Short or a Straight Line
• Idea 2 - Mercenary or Mission Driven?—Be Strategic and Honest in Your Obsession, and Then Obsess to Win
• Idea 3 - Move Forward to Get Back to Day 1—Change the Culture of the Status Quo
• Idea 4 - Obsessed is Different—Create Customer Obsession in Your Business
• Idea 5 - Don't Go Along to Get Along—The Risk Social Cohesion Poses to Achieving Hard Results
• Idea 6 - Deliver Results—Own Your Dependencies to Overcome and Succeed
• Idea 7 - Ownership for Everyone—Compensation Strategy to Drive Enterprise Optimization
• Idea 8 - Avoid Country Clubs—Stay Hungry Even When You're Successful
• Idea 9 - Make That Elephant Dance—Portfolio Strategy and Governance for Innovation
• Idea 10 - You are the Chief Product Officer—The New Management Science of Being a Builder
• Idea 11 - Are You Willing to Be Misunderstood?—Lessons from Amazon's Biggest Innovations
• Idea 12 - Get to Yes—Finance, Tax, Legal, and HR Teams That Matter
• Idea 13 - Blow up the Org Chart—Don't Let Your Organizational Structure and Titles Get in the Way
• Idea 14 - Games for Innovation—Spur Invention in Fun Ways
• Idea 15 - The Door Desk—Forcing Innovation Through Frugality
• Idea 16 - Introduction to Mission Impossible—Being Digital
• Idea 17 - Experiment, Fail, Rinse, Repeat—Plan and Operate Your Experiments for Digital Success
• Idea 18 - So You Want to Be a Platform?—Platform Strategy for the Rest of Us
• Idea 19 - Yes, You are a Technology Company—Decentralize Your Way to Digital Greatness
• Idea 20 - Pizza for All!—The Magic of Small Autonomous Teams
• Idea 21 - Never Say Never—Don't Let Past Positions Create a Trap
• Idea 22 - Relentless.com—Next-Generation Operational Excellence
• Idea 23 - OPW—The Strategy of other People's Work
• Idea 24 - The Magic of Forcing Functions—Get These Right, and Your Teams Will Take off
• Idea 25 - What's Your Flywheel?—Systems Thinking in Strategy Development
• Idea 26 - Why is This So Hard?—Innovate by Reducing Friction
• Idea 27 - Granting Customers Superpowers—Dreamy Businesses and Durable Needs
• Idea 28 - Think Differently—Improve Your Questions for Disruption
• Idea 29 - Launch and Learn—Business Expansion the Amazon Way
• Idea 30 - Don't Give Away the Operating System—Partners, Vendors, and Strategy
• Idea 31 - Lies, Damn Lies, and Metrics—Use Metrics to Build a Culture of Accountability and Customer Obsession
• Idea 32 - Process versus Bureaucracy—Creating Processes That Scale
• Idea 33 - Do the Math—The Path to Automation and AI Starts with Formulas
• Idea 34 - Customer Experience Matters—Design and Measure the Customer Experience to Win
• Idea 35 - What's Your Just Walk Out Technology?—Use the Internet of Things to Reinvent Customer Experiences
• Idea 36 - Information Security Must Die—Making Security Everyone's Job
• Idea 37 - OP1—The Painstaking Process of Planning
• Idea 38 - Strategic Headcount Planning—Scaling and Innovating Through People Allocation
• Idea 39 - Architecture is the Business Strategy—Win Through Technology and Architecture
• Idea 40 - The Questions You Ask—Ask Your CIO These Questions—For Everyone's Benefit
• Idea 41 - The End of Artificial Artificial Intelligence—Prepare for a Future of Machine Learning
• Idea 42 - One-Way or Two-Way Door?—Make Better and Faster Decisions
• Idea 43 - Raise the Bar—Avoid the Biggest Hiring Mistakes
• Idea 44 - A Narrative about Narratives—Ditch the PowerPoint and Gain Clarity
• Idea 45 - The Future Press Release—Define the Future and Get Teams on Board
• Idea 46 - FAQS—Answer others' Questions for Your Benefit
• Idea 47 - Write the User Manual—Start with the Customer and Work Backward
• Idea 48 - You are What You Eat—Create Change via the Executive Team Reading List
• Idea 49 - Finance for Fools—Free Cash Flow, Accounting, and Change
• Idea 50 - The Last Word on Becoming Digital—Trust
• Idea 50½ - Principles are Not a Poster—The Pursuit of Speed, Agility, and Digital Leadership