Life lessons from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos – The Wall Street Journal

Make three good decisions a day and no meetings before 10 a.m., Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos told an audience in Washington, DC.

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17 Sept 2018, 4:00 am

DUBLIN – To a certain extent, people like Jeff Bezos are as much the product of luck as anything else. That's not to say that Bezos isn't a good leader, or an innovative thinker, or a hard worker. But, realistically, if he'd been born in, say, Sierra Leone, he wouldn't have created Amazon – he wouldn't have had access to the American benefits, human capital, education, financing, and infrastructure that have made Amazon possible. Luck and timing play a huge role in any kind of success and every innovator builds on 100 innovations that came before them. Nevertheless, Bezos is a dynamic CEO and one who has placed a unique hallmark onto the company he founded. His habits, work schedules, and philosophy are of interest to many and the success of Amazon is built, in part, on those habits, schedules, and philosophies (and, of course, in part on America's great arterial road network that makes rapid delivery possible, it's high-speed internet infrastructure and a host of other things!) – Felicity Duncan