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Brad Stone Quotes

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“Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever.”
— Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Tagged: Life
“All of this comes from Bezos himself. Amazon’s values are his business principles, molded through two decades of surviving in the thin atmosphere of low profit margins and fierce skepticism from the outside world. In a way, the entire company is scaffolding built around his brain — an amplification machine meant to disseminate his ingenuity and drive across the greatest possible radius.”
— Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Tagged: Business Personalities, Leadership, Power
“Book publishers needed only to listen to Jeff Bezos himself to have their fears stoked. Amazon’s founder repeatedly suggested he had little reverence for the old 'gatekeepers' of the media, whose business models were forged during the analogue age and whose function it was to review content and then subjectively decide what the public got to consume. This was to be a new age of creative surplus, where it was easy for anyone to create something, find an audience, and allow the market to determine the proper economic reward. ‘Even well meaning gatekeepers slow innovation,’ Bezos wrote in his 2011 letter to shareholders. ‘When a platform is self-service, even the improbable ideas can get tried, because there’s no expert gatekeeper ready to say that will never work! And guess what — many of those improbable ideas do work, and society is the beneficiary of that diversity.”
— Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Tagged: Amazo, Book Publishing
“Managers in departments of fifty people or more are required to 'top-grade' their subordinates along a curve and must dismiss the least effective performers. As a result of this ongoing examination, many Amazon employees live in perpetual fear. A common experience among Amazon workers is a feeling of genuine surprise when one receives a good performance review. Managers are so parsimonious with compliments that underlings tend to spend their days anticipating their termination.”
— Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Tagged: Amazon, Managment, Performance Reviews
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