Jeff Bezos says that the best way to win support for an idea is by acknowledging there is no one right answer. Amazon employees are taught to 'disagree and commit.'
Even the billionaire CEO of one of the most valuable companies in the world doesn’t get automatic employee buy-in on his ideas. That’s why Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a key phrase he recommends when trying to win support for a given solution during a tough decision.on this,’” Bezos explained, an especially apt catchphrase given his seat on stage in Las Vegas, where he delivered the final keynote talk of Amazon’s re:MARS conference on Thursday.
“If you had to get the very last person in the room to have genuine consensus on an idea, it might never happen and you might waste a lot of time,” Bezos says. Sometime’s he’s the one using the phrase, he says, and sometimes he’s the one agreeing to take the gamble.
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