Jeff Bezos, management lessons from a successful businessman

Jeff Bezos He is known for creating a e-commerce giant that today bills millions of dollars: Amazon. But this iconic leader is more than his successful companies.

The founder of blue origin has publicly stated that all the businesses it has created or acquired aim to have a positive impact on society. Proof of this are Day 1 Fund, Bezos Earth Fund either The Washington Posta newspaper that he bought a decade ago for 250 million dollars.

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Lessons from Jeff Bezos

With a fortune valued at 118 billion dollarsthis businessman has several management lessons to share with the world. Then, we list some.

1. Get up early

Jeff Bezos He has a thought that has become his life mantra: Wakes up early and goes to bed early. In addition, he likes to schedule meetings of “high IQ” before lunch, in order to take smart decisions every day.

“If I make three good decisions a day, that’s enough. They should be of the highest possible quality,” she said during a talk at the Economic Club of Washington.

2. Listen to your customers

Amazon started as an e-commerce focused only in books and musicwhen the Leader determined to expand it to what it is today, asked thousand customers what they wanted to buy on the site.

With the result he obtained, he discovered that he could sell almost everything and that is the DNA of the online giant nowadays.

“If you get it right, a few years after an amazing invention, the new has become normal. People yawn and that yawn is the highest compliment who can receive a inventor”, he wrote in a letter to his collaborators when referring to Alexa and other products.

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3. Hold productive meetings

Something that characterizes Jeff Bezos is that he never likes to be done wasting time. For this reason, he asks his collaborators that they write in no more than six pages their ideas, which are distributed at the beginning of each meeting and read silently.

This is to enable employees perfect your memos to improve their ideas and with it the decision-making decisions.

4. Take risks

“When you think about the things you you will regret when you’re 80, it’s almost always the things that you did not do. They are acts of omission. very rarely you will regret something What did you do and what did you fail? and it didn’t work or whatever,” Bezos said in a 2018 interview.

with this philosophy businessman always remember that if he had not risked himself to quit office job I had in 1994 would never have started in a garage Seattle his flagship company: Amazonwhich he launched a year later.

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