Lessons from Eight Years at Amazon, Inc.
Former CFO at Deliveroo & Finance Director, EMEA, Amazon
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Why is this interview interesting?
- How Amazon deals with failure and encourages intelligent risk taking (why talking about failure is important, the role of the post-mortem)
- Principles for creating a learning environment and a learning culture
- Factors that prevent people from ascending to higher levels of management
- Cultivating self-awareness and learning from failure
- What gets in the way of learning from failure
- Lessons from scaling Amazon's European business
- How Amazon drives long-term oriented behavior through incentives
- How Amazon maintained culture while scaling operations aggressively
Lessons from Eight Years at Amazon, Inc.(March 3, 2020)
Philip Green
Former CFO at Deliveroo & Finance Director, EMEA, Amazon
Philip Green spent almost eight years at Amazon, culminating with the role of Finance Director of EU operations. He then took on the role of CFO at Groupon, followed by the role of CFO of Deliveroo. He currently is Director and CFO of theatre and entertainment producer Jamie Hendry Productions, as well as CFO of robotics and AR gaming business Reach Robotics, and advisor to several high-tech digital start-ups.
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