Jeff Bezos revealed his secret to Amazon’s success 25 years ago: ‘I asked everyone around here to wake up terrified every morning, their sheets drenched in sweat’
Jeff Bezos revealed his secret to Amazon’s success 25 years ago: ‘I asked everyone around here to wake up terrified every morning, their sheets drenched in sweat’
Amazon creator and former CEO's client-forward mentality began decades ago.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/32365208
Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least.
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We should stop rewarding sociopathic behaviour.
If the CEO isn't ruthless in their pursuit of increasing shareholder value they will get booted and may even be breaking the law.
Natural selection but you select for psychopathy.
"May even be breaking the law" is pure spin by sociopaths, for sociopaths. Ceos have a fiduciary duty to owners, i.e shsreholders, but that can easily mean you invest in long term gains like employee support, safer and more efficient tooling and policies building up community goodwill, etc.
It doesn't mean you have to cut throat brutalize all you can grasp in your greed soaked hands. No law, of any type, compels that. If a board does, it's just empowered by the thought terminating cliche that "no, no we have a duty to gut people's lives so line goes up."
The above is people making excuses for their socially destructive behavior, not an actual justification.
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