Lu sur GigaOm, une entrevue de Om Malik avec Jeff Bezos. Extraits :
- Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient
- The difference between founders and professional managers, is that
founders are stubborn about the vision of the business, and keep
working the details. Professional managers, when things don’t work,
want to change the vision. "The trick to being an entrepreneur
is to know when to be stubborn and when to be flexible. The trick is to
be stubborn about the vision, but flexible about tactics."
- Biggest prerequisite for innovation and inventing is willingness to fail. You need to think for the long term and be misunderstood for a long period of time.
“If you can’t do those things, then you need to limit yourself to
sustainable innovation.” In other words, seek incremental change to
grow your business.
- Many people make too much about the errors of commission. People over emphasize their failures for trying something new. Actually failure is not that expensive and it is part of work. If something fails, then you are going to shut it down and that is going to cut your losses. Bezos said. However, the biggest focus should be errors of ommission, he pointed out. These are chances not taken. He is not ashamed of his failures — A9 search and Auctions are two examples he cites often. Both markets were big enough for Amazon to take a flyer.
L'ensemble peut être lu ici : GigaOM
