Colin Bryar worked with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for years.
Now he is revealing one of the most important secrets of success that he has learned from the successful billionaire.
Jeff Bezos * rose as the founder of the online mail order company Amazon to become the most successful manager in the world.
His net worth is estimated at around $ 200 billion.
This makes him, together with Tesla boss Elon Musk *, one of the two richest people.
So Bezos knows like no other
how success works
- and has passed this on to his employees.
Jeff Bezos held weekly meetings with Amazon executives
One of them is Colyn Bryer.
As ex-Vice President of Amazon and longtime Chief of Staff, he worked with Jeff Bezos on a daily basis for many years.
So tight that it was even referred to as "Jeff's shadow".
One of the most important lessons he learned from his former boss is to
hold
weekly meetings with all executives
.
"Jeff did not have permanent one-on-one discussions with his employees," he reveals in a guest post on the
Business Insider
career
portal
.
“Instead, the
Amazon
S team
- its
direct employees
and some of the
most senior executives
in the company - met for four hours every week,” he continues.
The reason: Everyone should understand what is going on in the company.
Managers should also learn
to work together as a closed team in the event of a crisis
.
Also read:
Jeff Bezos: This is how the Amazon boss recognizes whether people are really intelligent.
+
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos knows better than anyone how success works.
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Many leadership teams are not used to working together
"Even though I encourage managers to hold regular one-on-one meetings with their other executives, I often see dysfunctional management teams who are simply not used to working together," reveals the former Amazon vice president.
In his opinion, a "
deliberately inefficient, weekly meeting of
all managers" would help improve teamwork.
Some of Jeff Bezo's best practices were known before, such as the "two-pizza rule" or what time he holds important meetings.
Tesla boss
Elon Musk also
has his tricks with which he drives his employees to top performance.
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