How Amazon's Growth Reflected Jeff Bezos's Management Style

How Amazon's growth reflected Jeff Bezos's management style is a book that was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and has been translated into more than 35 languages. It won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2013.

2 articles, 1 video, 1 book · about 50 min of reading and viewing

The reading path

1. Read
   sjhoward.co.uk » Review: The Everything Store by Brad Stone · sjhoward.co.uk · 3 min read

   Stone's book discusses Amazon's financial difficulties and some of the questionable ethics employed by Amazon, and gives a comprehensive account of how the company developed from a small, low-volume book store to its current world-leading status. The book also gives a comprehensive pen portrait of Bezos, who is described as exceptionally driven, possibly to the point of fault.

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   Book Review: The Everything Store — Open Letters Monthly · Open Letters Monthly · 5 min read

   Jeff Bezos had predicted that Barnes & Noble would have trouble seriously competing online, and, in the end, he was right. The Riggios' company's distribution operation was geared toward sending large shipments of books to physical stores, while mailing small orders to individual customers was long, painful, and full of customer-service errors. For Amazon, that was just daily business.

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   Amazon: Who pays the price? | DW Documentary · YouTube · 42 min watch

   The video covers criticism of Amazon's business practices, including pressure on retailers and influence on pricing policies. A former manager claims the company aims to put retailers and manufacturers under enormous pressure, and says the reason Amazon attracts customers with low prices might not be what consumers think.

4. Book
   

   The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Bookshop.org

   The Everything Store by Brad Stone describes Amazon's culture of relentless ambition and secrecy through an in-depth account of life at the company, and traces Bezos's pursuit of new markets, including the Kindle and cloud computing.

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