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Invent and Wander : The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bezos, Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Invent and Wander
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- A collection of writings by the founder and CEO of Amazon includes a selection of Bezos's unusual annual shareholder letters, speeches, and interviews that offer insight into his background, his professional approaches, and the evolutions of his ideas.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Note on Sourcing
- Part 1: The Shareholder Letters
- It's All About the Long Term: 1997
- Obsessions: 1998
- Building for the Long Term: 1999
- Taking the Long View: 2000
- The Customer Franchise Is Our Most Valuable Asset: 2001
- What's Good for Customers Is Good for Shareholders: 2002
- Long-Term Thinking: 2003
- Thinking About Finance: 2004
- Making Decisions: 2005
- Growing New Businesses: 2006
- A Team of Missionaries: 2007
- Working Backward: 2008
- Setting Goals: 2009
- Fundamental Tools: 2010
- The Power of Invention: 2011
- Internally Driven: 2012
- "Wow": 2013
- Three Big Ideas: 2014
- Big Winners Pay for Many Experiments: 2015
- Fending Off Day 2: 2016
- Building a Culture of High Standards: 2017
- Intuition, Curiosity, and the Power of Wandering: 2018
- Scale for Good: 2019
- Part 2: Life &
- Work
- My Gift in Life
- A Crucial Moment at Princeton
- "We Are What We Choose"
- Resourcefulness
- Why I Went from a Hedge Fund to Selling Books
- Finding the Root Cause
- Creating Wealth
- The Idea for Prime
- Thinking Three Years Out
- Where the Idea of Amazon Web Services Came From
- Alexa, AI, and Machine Learning
- Physical Stores and Whole Foods
- Buying the Washington Post
- Trust
- Work-Life Harmony
- Recruiting Talent
- Decisions
- Competition
- Government Scrutiny and Big Companies
- The Climate Pledge
- The Bezos Day One Fund
- The Purpose of Going into Space
- It's Still Day One for America.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64782-072-3
- OCLC:
- 1198717036
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