Former Amazon executive (chief of staff to Bezos) who co-wrote Working Backwards — documenting Amazon's management practices from the inside.
Working Backwards as Amazon management codified: Bryar (with Bill Carr) documented the specific practices that made Amazon's management distinctive — the six-page narrative memo replacing PowerPoint, the 'working backwards' product development process (write the press release first), two-pizza teams, the 14 Leadership Principles as operational framework. The book is the most detailed inside account of how Amazon actually manages at scale, more granular than anything Bezos himself has written.
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