A Critique of the Amazon Leadership Principles, Part 3

Dennis Consorte

5 min readOct 14, 2021

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In Part 1 of my Critique of the Amazon Leadership Principles, I covered the first two principles of Amazon’s guiding documentation: Customer Obsession; and Ownership. In Part 2, I went over three more principles: Invent and Simplify; Are Right, A Lot; and Learn and Be Curious. In this section, I will cover these principles:

Hire and Develop the Best

Dennis Consorte

Written by Dennis Consorte

Startup Marketing Consultant, ConsorteMarketing.com. Expert, Digital.com. Writer at Entrepreneur, https://bit.ly/dcentrepreneur. More: DennisConsorte.com.

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