3 Ways Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Makes Tough Decisions Without Being 100% Sure
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently released his 20th annual letter to shareholders. This one wasn’t just a reminder of how to run a thriving business, but how to run a thriving career. For anyone who wants to speed things up in their business or their life, Bezos’s section on “high-velocity decisions” offers three themes that you can use. velocity (n) vận tốc Theme 1: Any decision can be undone Bezos argues that there are two types of decisions – those that are reversible, and those that aren’t. Referencing last year’s letter, he asserts (khẳng định) that most decisions are reversible. They are “two-way doors”: “If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions. But most decisions aren’t like that – they are changeable, reversible – they’re two-way doors.” In the past, I treated two-way door decisions like one-way door decisions. When I finally told my wife that I wanted to move to...