The Amazon Management System: The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders

Charan, Ram; Yang, Julia

ISBN 10: 1646870042 / ISBN 13: 9781646870042

Published by Ideapress Publishing, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Amazon Management System: The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders
• Publisher: Ideapress Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646870042
• ISBN 13: 9781646870042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

Amazon’s trillion-dollar success is the envy of everyone, but achievable by anyone.

What has propelled their record streak of growth? Their management system, and it can do the same for you no matter what business you are in or what level.

Learning it is as simple as six building blocks distilled by New York Times bestselling author and global CEO advisor Ram Charan and Julia Yang in The Amazon Management System.

The Ultimate Digital Engine that Powered Amazon’s Unprecedented Growth and Shareholder Value Creation:
• Building Block 1: Customer-Obsessed Business Model
• Building Block 2: Continuous Bar-Raising Talent Pool
• Building Block 3: AI-Powered Data & Metrics System
• Building Block 4: Ground-Breaking Invention Machine
• Building Block 5: High-Velocity & High-Quality Decision-Making
• Building Block 6: A forever Day 1 culture.

From their high-velocity decision-making to their top talent hiring practices, the insider secrets behind Amazon’s success are now within anyone’s grasp, block by block.

Whether you are an established CEO or a recent college grad, this concise and actionable book will help your business win in a new digital era that demands nonstop innovation.

Winner of 4 Book Awards!
2021 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL WINNER
2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE FINALIST
2020 AMERICAN BOOKFEST BEST BOOK AWARDS WINNER

About the Author

Ram Charan has spent six decades working with CEOs across almost all major geographies and industries. He talks to a CEO or CXO every single day. His advice is actually executed.

He has advised over 50 Chinese companies and served on Chinese boards. He warned executives about China's rise for two decades while others dismissed the threat.

Author of 36 books, including the international bestseller Execution, his work has sold over 4 million copies in 25+ languages.

A Harvard Business School Baker Scholar with an MBA and doctorate from HBS, Dr. Charan was recently honored as a "Global Board Legend" at the 2025 Global Corporate Governance Summit.

Julia Yang is a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs and executives. She was previously a consultant at McKinsey and a private equity investor at Bain Capital and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the faculty of the joint MIT-Tsinghua MBA program.