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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12

    More should be written about Amazon. Certainly the history of the company is interesting, but it seems like the management and organization of Amazon is very different than at most companies.

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      2. Zack Kanter‏Verified account @zackkanter May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Read ‘Origin of Wealth’ by Beinhocker and ‘The Goal’ by Goldratt, and you’ll have a clear playbook for how Amazon is designed, run, and scaled. And on the organizational architecture side, I wrote an overview last year:https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/ …

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12
        Replying to @zackkanter

        I’d read yours, will read the others

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      4. Daniel Copeland‏ @dan_coperine May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred @zackkanter

        There's a graphic novel version of the goal, too The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0884272079/ 

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      5. Daniel Copeland‏ @dan_coperine May 12
        Replying to @dan_coperine @AustenAllred @zackkanter

        Only 143 pages

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      2. Anton Troynikov‏ @atroyn May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I have a theory that Amazon runs chaos monkey at the management level

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      3. Anton Troynikov‏ @atroyn May 12
        Replying to @atroyn @AustenAllred

        While I have no direct evidence for this point of view, it would explain the heterogeneity across teams and organizations within Amazon, despite continued wins

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      4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 12
        Replying to @atroyn

        They intentionally do just that! They break off into functional teams that focus on their portion of the company and don’t stress much about if they’re duplicating effort across multiple groups. They build the company like developers build service-driven architecture.

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      5. Anton Troynikov‏ @atroyn May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        more specifically, I mean that they break the management and culture _on purpose_ so that they don't inevitably succumb to big org soup. chaos monkey means you have to develop robust systems because your stuff will break, guaranteed amazon does this at the people level imo

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      6. Anton Troynikov‏ @atroyn May 12
        Replying to @atroyn @AustenAllred

        everyone has to deal with a bozo explosion. you can either try to prevent it which is like fighting the tide with a mop, or you can become robust to it by accepting it will happen and routing around / expelling damage

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      7. Anton Troynikov‏ @atroyn May 12
        Replying to @atroyn @AustenAllred

        anyway it's ridiculous to me that no one seems to grasp how important Amazon is. it's going to be bigger than standard oil, maybe on the level of dutch east india if things keep going the way they are in the U.S

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      1. Clay Shirky‏Verified account @cshirky May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Time to update this chart http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts …

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      1. Tom Flanagan‏ @tomflanagan08 May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        As someone who appreciates clear writing (and the clear thinking required to produce it), I’ve always been envious of their policy re: meeting memos. Probably helps to reduce loud voice bias and HiPPO decision-making, too.

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      1. Richard M.‏ @gnarmac May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I’d love if The Everything Store was updated every ~7 years.

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      1. Ninan Thampy‏ @ninan99 May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        - I following @domprice from @Atlassian to learn different management & organizational thought process.

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      1. Mike Smith‏ @MrMikeSmith May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Everything store. Everything store. Everything store. It's more ops and MGMT than history IMO. So good.

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      1. Arash Amini‏ @AminiCorp May 13
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Why is amazon lauded and Walmart hated? They're the same. But one understands PR.

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      1. Startup Diazepam‏ @Startup_Dreams May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Example?

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      1. fscherer‏ @floryanscherer May 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        What is already out there besides stratechery (which is very good imo)?

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