Review: Working Backwards by Amazon
Channel: Mark Vletter
Date: 2022-11-12

These are the 7 things you can learn from Amazon and apply from the book Working Backwards.

1. Putting your principles to papers
2. Creating a solid hiring process
3. A rigid system for a flexible strategy
4. Working single-threaded
5. Text is better than PowerPoint
6. Working backwards: start with customer value
7. Using input metrics to measure success

*Why this book?* 
Every once in a while, you read a book with the right content at the right time.  Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, is one of those books.

*Get in touch*
- twitter.com/markv
- voys.co/marks-newsletter/ (English newsletter)
- voys.nl/mark (Dutch newsletter)

*Thanks to* 
Thanks to my https://voys.co colleagues for helping me make this review for Working Backwards by Amazon.

*Chapters*
00:00 Working Backwards by Amazon
01:02 Putting your principles to papers
01:54 Creating a solid hiring process
02:49 A rigid  system for a flexible strategy
03:17 Working single-threaded
04:06 Text is better than PowerPoint
05:54 Working backwards: start with customer value
06:38 Using input metrics to measure success

#WorkingBackwards #Amazon #review #working #backwards: