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“The best way to fail at inventing something is by making it somebody¡¯s part-time job.”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
“In the 2016 shareholder letter, even though he wasn¡¯t explicitly talking about two-pizza teams, Jeff suggested that ¡°most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you¡¯re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. If you¡¯re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.¡±5”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
“When you encounter a problem, the probability you¡¯re actually looking at the actual root cause of the problem in the initial 24 hours is pretty close to zero, because it turns out that behind every issue there¡¯s a very interesting story.¡± In the end, if you stick with identifying the true root causes of variation and eliminating them, you¡¯ll have a predictable, in-control process that you can optimize.”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
