Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Why success depends on not being efficient sometimes via CNBCMakeIt
Amazon is a business about efficiency: You can order almost anything you want and it will arrive on your doorstep extremely quickly.
But for employees at Amazon, there is actually a time to be inefficient too, Bezos said in his annual letter to shareholders, published Thursday."Sometimes in business, you do know where you're going, and when you do, you can be efficient. Put in place a plan and execute," Bezos writes."In contrast, wandering in business is not efficient … but ...
"You need to employ both. The outsized discoveries – the 'non-linear' ones – are highly likely to require wandering." Since being released, however, the Echo has been wildly successful. Customers have bought more than 100 million devices to run Alexa.
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