Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Says the ‘Way to Get Ahead’ at Amazon Isn’t By Overseeing a ‘Giant Team and Fiefdom’

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, 57, is on a mission to reduce Amazon’s layers of middle management.

At a leaked all-hands meeting last week, Jassy answered a question from an employee about how he intends to run Amazon like the world’s biggest startup. According to a recording of the meeting obtained by Business Insider, Jassy said that Amazon is committed to reducing its middle-manager headcount and that the path to a promotion at Amazon is not by taking charge of a massive team.

“The way to get ahead at Amazon is not to go accumulate a giant team and fiefdom,” Jassy said, per the recording. “There’s no award for having a big

→ Continue reading at Entrepreneur

More from author

Related posts

Advertisment

Latest posts

‘Heads are exploding’: How security experts see the Signal war-plan breach

President Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office...

Feel Like Your Business Is Destined to Stay Small? Here’s How to Break Through and Unlock Explosive Growth.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When I started my business, PostcardMania, all I had was a phone, a computer,...

What is Signal? The private chat app is only private if you use it right | CNN Business

New York CNN  —  If you hadn’t heard of Signal before Monday, chances are you have now. ...