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Innovating While Scaling: Lessons from Amazon

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Balancing Principles in Leadership

This chapter explores how contrasting leadership principles at Amazon coexist to enhance decision-making, using samurai values as a metaphor for kindness and vengefulness. It emphasizes the necessity of patience, long-term planning, and decentralized decision-making for effective scaling in a complex organization. Additionally, it highlights innovative organizational strategies, mentorship insights from Jeff Bezos, and the evolution of leadership focus as companies grow.

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