Nov 11 2024 43 mins 1
John Rossman (ex Amazon executive) co-author of the book 'Big Bet Leadership' shares leadership strategies at Amazon.
We explore the concept of Big Bet Leadership focusing on how to manage high-risk, high-reward business initiatives through creating clarity, maintaining velocity, and accelerating risk and value.
Rossman shares insights from his time at Amazon, discusses the importance of leadership in complex transformational situations, and addresses common challenges in these scenarios.
00:00 Introduction
02:43 Defining Big Bets in Business
05:31 Challenges and Risks of Big Bets
10:00 Insights from Amazon's Playbook
17:15 The Role of Culture in Leadership
22:03 Critique of the Agile Methodology
23:55 The Misuse of the Agile Methodology
24:28 The Overplanning Paradox in Agile
25:21 High Stakes Meetings: Continue, Kill, Pivot, or Confusion
26:53 Structuring High Stakes Meetings
28:45 The What Sucks Memo and Hypothesis
30:01 Big Bet Vectors and Testing
33:50 Applying Big Bet Leadership to AI
36:14 Abolishing Ineffective Meetings
38:24 The Power of Memos Over PowerPoint
41:51 Final Thoughts
John Rossman: www.johnrossman.com
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