Tenets and the Are Right A Lot principle with Dave Glick

Think Like Amazon

Dave Glick spent 20 years at Amazon as a VP responsible for building much of Amazon’s pricing, warehouse management systems, and fulfillment technology. As an early executive at Amazon, Dave played a major role in Amazon’s adoption of tenets and in how the Are Right, A Lot principle is practices at the company. In this episode, Dave shares the stories behind Amazon’s use of tenets and the focus on diverse perspectives in Amazon’s leadership principles. Dave also shares his personal best practices for helping his teams make high-judgement decisions.

Since leaving Amazon, Dave has spent the last two years at Flexe where he continues to grow teams and help craft the organization’s mechanisms. Whether you are looking to help your team make stronger decisions or are interested in benchmarking and improving your own judgement, you are sure to take away a few great nuggets from this chat with Dave.

Mentioned in the podcast:

The Lab: https://www.thelabconsult.com/

Flexe: https://www.flexe.com/

Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidglick1/

More from the episode:

3:24 – This story behind Amazon tenets and how they help to “reload the cache”

6:10 – How tenets help teams to “disagree and commit”

7:58 – How a good tenet helped an Amazon team prevent customer complexity

9:32 – What to consider when creating tenets

11:30 – Why hiring good, diverse people is fundamental to teams that “are right, a lot”

13:57 – The Costanza method to practice being right a lot

15:29 – How to help your team make better decisions

17.22 – Ideas to help small teams access diverse perspectives

19:00 – Establishing must-have points to help improve decision making

21:05 – Sources for benchmarking your judgement