Audiobooks by John Rossman

The Amazon Way: Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles

The 3rd edition of The Amazon Way is one of the rare business leadership books giving actionable insights for innovation and business growth to be the basis for your digital transformation gameplan. The Amazon Way translates Amazon's unique culture and management practices into insights and opportunities, as only an Amazon executive and expert advisor could do for the Amazon Leadership Principles giving readers one of the essential business leadership books for the digital era. Peppered with humorous and enlightening firsthand anecdotes with Jeff Bezos from the author’s career at Amazon, this revealing business guide is also filled with the valuable lessons that have served Jeff Bezos’ “everything store” so well—providing expert advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors alike. The author was responsible for launching the Amazon Marketplace business and had accountability for the enterprises services business. Since leaving Amazon, Rossman has worked across every industry sector and with companies of all sizes to create business and product strategies, approaches to scale leadership, culture and innovation. It’s this combination of Amazon insider experience coupled with a vast portfolio of helping other businesses compete which make The Amazon Way a guide for anyone looking to compete in the digital era. The 3rd edition has many new and updated sections. This includes a new foreword from Tom Alberg, managing partner at Madrona Venture Group. Tom was on the board of directors at Amazon for 23 years. A new preface is included suggesting a vital strategy for Amazon and the leadership teams for all companies. The Amazon Way is on a short list of essential business leadership books and should be a key addition to business leadership programs to develop a culture of growth and innovation. If you are interviewing at Amazon or for current Amazon employees, The Amazon Way will be an invaluable asset for your success. The Amazon Way doesn't just explain the Amazon Leadership Principles, but gives tools, mechanisms and atomic habits to create change in a team or business. The leadership principles and examples include customer obsession, long-term thinking, think big, working backwards and the future press release, bias for action, earn trust and free cash flow. Praise for The Amazon Way 'In this new edition, John Rossman provides an updated, in-depth and invaluable view of the principles that are fueling Amazon's extraordinary business success. John's suggestion to add a new principle focused on the Golden Rule is a great one for every company, as, more than ever, we need business to serve the common good!' -- Hubert Joly, former chairman and CEO of Best Buy, author The Heart of Business - Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism 'In The Amazon Way, John Rossman brilliantly illuminates Amazon's secretive corporate culture, using HIS rare insider's perspective to show how Jeff Bezos has created unique systems that facilitate good decision making at all levels of his company' -- Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound

John Rossman (Author), Jeff Cummings (Narrator)

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Mach's wie Amazon!: Mit 50 ½ Ideen zum digitalen Vorreiter werden

Mit Insiderwissen so erfolgreich wie Amazon werden Amazon ist heute einer der erfolgreichsten Konzerne der Welt. Doch wie macht Amazon-Chef Jeff Bezos das? Wieso ist gerade Amazon so außergewöhnlich erfolgreich? John Rossman, einst leitender Angesteller bei Amazon, kennt die Antwort auf diese Fragen aus der Praxis und weiß: Jeff Bezos verfolgt mit seinem Weltkonzern einen ganz eigenen Weg, um Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, bessere Ergebnisse zu erzielen und neue Ideen und Märkte zu erobern. Rossmann bietet in seinem Buch nichts weniger als Amazons ganz eigene Strategie in 50 ½ nachvollziehbaren und wertvollen Anregungen und Tipps, die jeden in die Lage versetzen, von Amazons Erfolgs-DNA zu profitieren. Fünf Sterne für Umsetzbarkeit und Erfolgsgarantie!

John Rossman (Author), Peter Wolter (Narrator)

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Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader

The former Amazon executive who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace delivers the ultimate playbook on how to “think like Amazon” and succeed in the digital age. “What would Jeff do?” Since leaving Amazon to advise start-ups and corporations, John Rossman has been asked this question countless times by executives who want to know “the secret” behind Amazon’s historic success. In this step-by-step guide, he provides 50 ½ answers drawn from his experience as an Amazon executive―and shows today’s business leaders how to think like Amazon, strategize like Bezos, and beat the competition like nobody’s business. Learn how to: Move forward to get back to Day 1―and change the status quo. Become a platform company―with the right platform strategy. Create customer obsession―and grant your customers superpowers. Experiment, fail, rinse, and repeat. Decentralize your way to digital greatness. Master the magic of small autonomous teams. Avoid the trap of past positions. Make better and faster decisions. Use metrics to create a culture of accountability and innovation Use AI and the Internet of Things to reinvent customer experiences.In addition to these targeted strategies, you’ll receive a rare inside glimpse into how Jeff Bezos and Amazon take a remarkably consistent approach to innovate, explore new markets, and spark new growth. You’ll understand the unique mindset and inner workings that drive Amazon’s operational excellence, from its ground-up approach to new digital markets to its out-of-the-box attitudes on innovation. Along the way, you’ll learn specific game-changing strategies that made Amazon stand out in a crowded digital world. These include actionable ideas that you can use to transform your culture, expand your business into digital, and become the kind of platform company that customers obsess over. Rossman also offers invaluable insights into the latest technologies, e-commerce marketing, online culture, and IoT disruptions that only an Amazon insider would know. If you want to compete and win in the digital era, you have to Think Like Amazon.

John Rossman (Author), Jeff Cummings, John Rossman (Narrator)

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The Amazon Way on IoT

The Amazon Way on IoT is for the leader who wants to understand how the internet of things is transforming business and society. Readers will discover business cases, key concepts, technologies and tools to help develop, explain and execute their own IoT approach through understanding Amazon's and other leading companies sophisticated IoT technologies and strategies.Connected devices, wearables, cloud computing, sensors, machine learning and algorithms are all capabilities and technologies dramatically changing business, government and organizational landscapes. These are the core components enabling the internet of things, which Harvard professor Michael Porter writes is the backbone for a third wave of technology-led innovation and digital disruption. This book gives you the easy recipes to identify the opportunities in your business. **Please Contact Customer Service for Additional Documents**

John Rossman (Author), Christopher Lane (Narrator)

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The Amazon Way

In the beginning, there was an online bookseller—and a visionary founder who dreamed of making it into so much more. Now Amazon.com has conquered the world of online shopping, placing tens of millions of items at customers’ fingertips, revolutionizing the personal reading device, and transforming one industry after another. The company’s secret? A customer-centric management style—along with fourteen leadership principles that represent the heart and soul of its business practices. Having helped lead the iconic Internet retailer during its formative years, management consultant John Rossman now reveals the principles that drive Amazon’s innovative culture, showing how the same principles can help any business seize the competitive advantage. Along the way, you’ll experience an authentic, often humorous, first-hand look at the inner workings of one of the world’s most successful companies as it grew from simple bookseller to the game-changer it is today.

John Rossman (Author), Jeff Cummings (Narrator)

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