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Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. For organisations that are not used to inventing and delivering new products and services, we can take inspiration from the serial winners at the game of innovation. And there are few better exponents than Amazon. Students of innovation have recorded more than 25 significant innovations by the company in its first 20 years and collecting 2,200 patents in 2020 alone. Clearly, its frameworks and cultural practices offer many lessons for those aspiring to remain relevant in today’s world. In their book Working Backwards, Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, two forme...

The Amazonian Mindset is developed based on how well employees use these 14 leadership principles in terms of how they worked - making decisions, creating, and servicing stakeholders. Carr told us that he referenced these principles in meetings, how he recruited talent, performance coaching and feedback, and his daily decision-making processes. Carr arrived at the right decisions by always referring back to the leadership principles. The principles were created to scale the business without drifting away from the brand promise.  Working Backward Working backward is a very specific process at...

Learn more about International Women's Day at the library Annie Gilmer It’s the beginning of March already, and this column comes out just in time for me to talk about International Women’s Day which is celebrated on March 8. This holiday, or day of recognition, is set aside specifically in order to celebrate women for their achievements, and to raise awareness about women’s equality. International Women’s Day (IWD) was officially recognized in 1977 by the United Nations, but the celebration vastly predates the seventies. According to the UN’s website, the first IWD celebration took...

Colin Bryar spent two years closely following Bezos and shares 13 memorable lessons from one of the most respected leaders in business.

Amazon's Andy Jassy. Incoming CEO Andy Jassy isn’t likely to make big studio moves — but has built ties with Hollywood while running the tech giant’s web services division. You’ll have to forgive anyone in Hollywood whose response to the Feb. 2 news that Andy Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO was, “who?” An Amazon lifer, Jassy spent nearly two decades running the Seattle e-commerce giant’s highly profitable cloud-computing division, a role that hardly put him in a position to rub elbows with the creatives making films and TV shows for Amazon Studios. But Jassy’s app...