However they were headed to Amazon's customer services centre - where they were to spend two days as customer service agents.
He recalls that a complaint on one product in particular kept coming in. Bezos was frustrated. There was clearly something wrong with the product, but it hadn't been escalated.
Later that day he sent out an email asking for more efficient ways of flagging faulty products. Bezos steps down from Amazon on Monday - exactly 27 years after he founded it. In that time he has developed a series of unusual leadership principles - which some argue are the backbone of his success. Others believe they speak to everything that is wrong with Big Tech. Talk to anyone who's ever worked at Amazon, and you don't have to wait long before you hear the phrase "customer obsession".
For Bezos, profit was a long-term aspiration. For a company to be successful it had to have happy customers - at almost any cost. Nadia Shouraboura started working for Amazon in She went on to be invited into the elite "S-team" of Amazon managers - the senior managerial board. But when she first started, she thought she was going to be immediately fired. Shouraboura had ordered key products onto warehouse shelves that were too high.
It would take time and money to get the right products off the shelves. But when I talked to Jeff about it he looked at me and said, 'you're thinking about this all wrong'.
Fix the problem for customers, and then come back to me in a few weeks and tell me the cost. Bezos has many critics. Last month, a bombshell article from ProPublica claimed to have seen Bezos' tax returns - and alleged Mr Bezos paid no tax in and It was a stunning claim about the world's richest man.
Other negative stories about Amazon, its ruthlessness, its claims of monopolistic behaviour, haven't helped Bezos' reputation. However, many people who work closely with him don't recognise the characterisation that he is uncaring or selfish.
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It was extremely dangerous. Employees would be organized into groups of fewer than 10 people — the perfect number to be satisfied by two pizzas for dinner — and were expected to work autonomously. Teams had to set strict goals, with equations to measure their success. Those equations were called "fitness functions," and tracking those goals was how Bezos managed his teams. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.
Many employees hated "two-pizza teams," and especially the stress of the fitness functions. They've typically got a few hours to solve whatever issue the CEO has flagged and prepare a thorough explanation for how it occurred, a response that will be reviewed by a succession of managers before the answer is presented to Bezos himself.
Such escalations, as these e-mails are known, are Bezos's way of ensuring that the customer's voice is constantly heard inside the company. The A9 team started a project called Block View, a visual Yellow Pages, which would pair street-level photographs of stores and restaurants with their listings in A9's search results. Amazon hires seasonal workers, but the holiday season is still extremely stressful for the logistics teams. In the early s, Jeff Wilke, Amazon's operations manager, would let any person or team who accomplished a significant goal close their eyes, lean back, and yell into the phone at him at the top of their lungs.
Wilke told Brad Stone that some of the primal screams nearly blew out his speakers. Once, an employee who was preparing to quit hopped on the fulfillment center's conveyor belt and rode it merrily through the entire facility. One of the wildest stories, however, may be from and it involves a temporary employee at a Kansas fulfillment center:.
It took at least a week for anyone to discover what was going on: He had tunneled out a den inside a huge pile of empty wooden pallets. Completely out of view, he had used Amazon products to make a bed, ripped pictures from Amazon books to line his make-shift walls, and stolen Amazon food to snack on.
When he was discovered, he was unsurprisingly fired. It was a novel set in the future about an engineer who steals a rare interactive textbook to give to his knowledge-hungry daughter, Fiona. The team that worked on Kindle prototypes thought of that fictitious textbook as the template for the device that they were working on.
The team eventually begged Bezos to keep the name Fiona, but he decided on another suggestion, Kindle, because it evoked the idea of starting a fire. Bezos was known for his explosive or sarcastic responses to employees if he wasn't happy with what they reported to him.
It was said that he had hired a leadership coach to try to keep his harsh evaluations in check. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
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