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.
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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I’d read yours, will read the others
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There's a graphic novel version of the goal, too The Goal: A Business Graphic Novelhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0884272079/
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What an excellent blog post. Are each of the platforms a separate P&L?
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I'm not sure, but I'd imagine so.
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I read Origin of Wealth years ago - what’s the connection to Amazon? Thx!
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They've institutionalized/operationalized the evolutionary algorithm.
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Have read that the publicly perceived org structure (specifically two pizza team) isn’t that accurate. Do you have a take on that? Any other co’s that have tried copying the concept?
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I think the two biggest factors are the 6-page memos + a service oriented architecture.
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