What differentiates Amazon’s Leadership Principles (LPs) from nearly every other company? Why are they such an effective management tool, and why are they a crucial contributor to Amazon’s phenomenal success?
The short answer is that they are woven into every aspect of how everyone at Amazon works, thinks, and acts every hour of every day. They are regularly referenced and quoted verbatim by employees at all levels; their intent is manifested in every workflow and core process.
Colin Bryar and I wrote about the Amazon LPs in Chapter One of our book Working Backwards. Since its publication in 2011, Colin and I have spent the past four years advising and enabling CEOs and their companies how to implement Amazon’s best practices, like Input Metrics and the PR FAQ new product innovation process.
We were, however, not initially prepared to address what became a common request – “…how do we implement Leadership Principles like Amazon’s at our company?”
Thanks to expert guidance from Robin Andrulevich and many years of work, we have developed a practical framework for establishing LPs, including 12 Best Practices for Developing Effective LPs. The first one is below, and you can read the other 11 on our website:
1. Identify the behaviors of role model leaders in your organization today. Interviews and surveys can uncover specific leadership skills from your best leaders. Seek to capture and distill these into principles. Usually, what makes a company successful is what it does differently. Try to figure out what those are during the exercise.
Read the rest of the list here: https://lnkd.in/gj9guGjt
