At Amazon, our Leadership Principles guide everything we do, from the biggest strategic decisions to everyday interactions with colleagues and customers. Most importantly, they connect us across teams, time zones, and functions. Whether you're in Seattle or São Paulo, whether you've been here 20 years or 20 days, these principles create a shared language for how we work, learn, and grow together. Watch to see how we’re living a few of these Leadership Principles in the office. Which Leadership Principle resonates most with you? Share your favorite in the comments, or let us know which ones you'd like to see featured in Part 2!
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Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1." What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and focus on delighting our customers.
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Performance Psychologist working with the best in the world • Host & Founder, Finding Mastery • Bestselling Author • “Every day is an opportunity to create a living masterpiece.”
What if your biggest competitive advantage isn’t how technologically advanced you are... but how psychologically agile your teams are? Today, we sit down with Matt Garman — CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a $120B business — to dig into the leadership frameworks behind one of the world’s most innovative companies. In this episode, you’ll learn: - How to use the “one-way vs. two-way doors” framework to make faster, smarter decisions - Why optimism (not naïveté) is a core competitive advantage for innovators - The key to shipping a minimum lovable product customers actually want - The real frictions in AI adoption—and why replacing juniors with AI backfires - Why long-horizon energy bets (including nuclear) matter for innovation and sustainability If you’re leading in a fast-moving world—or want to—this conversation offers practical frameworks and a shot of grounded optimism to help your team move faster, smarter, and with more heart. Take a listen…. Wherever you get your podcasts! #psychology #marketing #mindset #mastery
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We're proud to see Shane's story featured on The Career Ladder 🪜 Starting as a seasonal team member 13 years ago, Shane now leads an innovative team whose work impacts impacts thousands of customers every day. From fulfillment centers to robotics, from renewable energy to cutting-edge innovation - we're building the future while building careers. Max Klymenko showcased one of the incredible people who make Amazon work, with three more profiles to come.
I make videos about careers, brands and social causes. 8 Million followers and 3 Billion views.
His job is similar to a modern-day Willy Wonka 🍫 Shane started at Amazon 13 years ago as a seasonal employee. Now he: - works in a team that impacts thousands of people - makes six figures a year - and gets to give people a behind-the-scenes look at Amazon We met Shane while filming the Career Ladder at Amazon’s biggest innovation event of the year — one of many jobs I had to guess that day. I thought it’d be easy since I already know the company… but I was so wrong. Amazon’s job range is wild — from robotics and fulfilment centres to solar panels. I can’t wait to share more about the incredible jobs that make Amazon work. But in the meantime… Can you guess what Shane does before the time runs out? AD Amazon #DeliveringTheFuture
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New multi-year, strategic partnership with OpenAI will provide our industry-leading infrastructure for them to run and scale ChatGPT inference, training, and agentic AI workloads. Allows OpenAI to leverage our unusual experience running large-scale AI infrastructure securely, reliably, and at scale. OpenAI will start using AWS’s infrastructure immediately and we expect to have all of the capacity deployed before end of next year-- with the ability to expand in 2027 and beyond. https://lnkd.in/gBKEPqg2
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Project Rainier is now online—the world’s most powerful operational AI supercomputer. Built hand-in-glove with Anthropic, Project Rainier features nearly 500,000 Trainium 2 chips, delivering over five times the compute power Anthropic used for its previous models. Anthropic is already using Project Rainier to train and run inference for Claude, its industry-leading AI model. By year’s end, Claude is expected to be running on more than 1 million Trainium 2 chips across Anthropic’s direct usage and Amazon Bedrock. Watch the video below for a behind-the-scenes look at how a Project Rainier UltraServer comes to life—from delivery to full deployment. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g5uTsFbV
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Our new Echo Dot Max and redesigned Echo Studio, purpose-built for Alexa+, are available starting today. Both sound incredible. Echo Studio is 40% smaller but still fills the room with rich, immersive sound and Dolby Atmos support. Echo Dot Max brings our first two-way speaker system to Dot, with nearly 3× the bass of the last generation. They even adapt to your space — analyzing your room’s acoustics and tuning automatically. And under the hood, our custom AZ3 silicon powers the most advanced Echo experience yet. I’m so grateful to the teams who obsessed every detail to bring these to life. Can’t wait for you to try them. https://lnkd.in/gW_BiXVS
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Yesterday, we unveiled Future Ready 2030—a $2.5 billion commitment to expand access to education and skills training and help prepare at least 50 million people for the future of work. This investment builds on our progress since 2019, when we set out to upskill 100,000 employees by 2025. We’ve now helped more than 700,000 Amazon employees gain new skills, and we’re thinking even bigger for what comes next. From K-12 students in our Amazon Future Engineer program, to early-career talent in AWS Educate and apprenticeships, to employees advancing through Career Choice and AWS Skill Builder—we're connecting education directly to real employment outcomes across every stage of the career journey. Learn more about Future Ready 2030 and how we’re helping shape the workforce of tomorrow. https://lnkd.in/g82T-DdD