Jeff Bezos

Move Fast & Fix Things: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 18, 2023

Move Fast & Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Harvard Business Review Press (October 2023) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” …

Read More

The Unfair Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2022

The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba St. Martin’s Press (June 2022) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right. “ Henry Ford The title and…

Read More

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2022

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age Ram Charan and Geri Willigan Currency (April 2021) “Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein With substantial assistance from Geri Willigan, Ram Charan…

Read More

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

April 15, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age Ram Charan and Geri Willigan Currency (April 2021) “Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein With substantial assistance from Geri Willigan, Ram Charan…

Read More

How Amazon Thinks About Competition

January 12, 2021

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Bezos for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email…

Read More

Michael Schrage on how recommendation engines transform self-awareness, self-discovery, and self-knowledge

December 4, 2020

In the latest of his several brilliant books, Recommendation Engines, Michael Schrage examines what is perhaps the single most influential form of mass communication. “The right recommendation at the right time is exactly what an Amazon, a Netflix, a Facebook,…

Read More

Invent & Wander: A book review by Bob Morris

November 28, 2020

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos Harvard Business Review Press (November 2020) For this CEO, it will always be “Day 1” What we have in this volume is a collection of Jeff Bezos’ writings: shareholder…

Read More

Whole Foods Founder: “The Whole World Is Getting Fat”

October 2, 2020

Here is another superb article from David Gelles for The New York Times in which he shares his conversation with John Mackey. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. Credit:…

Read More

The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store

September 24, 2020

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. He spoke to hundreds of current and former employees, as well as friends and family of founder Jeff Bezos, to discover the poignant story of…

Read More

The Amazon Management System: A book review by Bob Morris

December 11, 2019

The Amazon Management System: The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders Ram Charan and Julia Yang Ideapress Publishing (December 2019) The “sercret sauce” of one of the most successful organizations thoughout the history…

Read More