Jeff Bezos: “Set up your culture so the most junior person can overrule the most senior person.”
“Truths often don’t want to be heard. Important truths can be uncomfortable, awkward, exhausting, challenging. They can make people defensive.”
He continues:
“But any high-performing organization—whether it’s a sports team, a business, a political organization, or activist group—has to have mechanisms and a culture that supports truth telling.”
Jeff wanted to build a culture of truth-telling in Amazon.
So in every meeting Jeff attends, he always speaks last:
“I know from experience that if I speak first, even very strong-willed, highly-intelligent participants of that meeting will [wonder if their ideas are incorrect]”
By allowing junior people to speak first, he makes sure that all ideas are heard and weighed equally:
“You want to set up your culture so that the most junior person can overrule the most senior person.”
Video source: @lexfridman (2023)
"وحدثتُ نفسي كثيرًا، وبعد كل ما مضى، أن الحياة ليست سوى سلسلة لا تنتهي من الخدع، وأننا داخلها نتمرّد لننتقل من وهم إلى وهم أدق، نسميه الحقيقة لنكافئ أنفسنا على هذا التمرد"
“When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. Now, I just want to change myself. But the more I do… the more the world seems to change too.”
— Unknown
اللهم صلِّ على محمد وعلى آل محمد، كما صليت على إبراهيم وعلى آل إبراهيم، إنك حميد مجيد. اللهم بارك على محمد وعلى آل محمد، كما باركت على إبراهيم وعلى آل إبراهيم، إنك حميد مجيد.
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