Amazon Has Become America’s CEO Factory
Posted on AllSides November 20th, 2019
From The Center
Latchel Inc. is a 3-year-old, 20-person startup in Seattle that sells home-maintenance services. It has something in common with its enormous neighbor Amazon.com Inc., AMZN -0.22% specifically, 14 leadership principles, many of which are identical.
That’s not a coincidence. Will Gordon, a Latchel co-founder, worked for the e-commerce giant for nearly three years. And like many former Amazon executives, Mr. Gordon took with him its management style—including principles such as “customer obsession” and “bias for action”—when he left a few years ago. He’s part of the diaspora of Amazon alumni...
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