The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon

The author deconstructs Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' annual review letters to shareholders that show why, when, and how he takes risks and how that makes the company successful.

The Bezos Letters lays out the fourteen growth principles that Amazon uses every day by examining Jeff Bezos' personal letters to shareholders. Jeff Bezos created Amazon, the fastest company to reach $100 billion in sales ever, making him the richest man in the world. Business owners marvel at Amazon's success, but don't realize they have the answers right at their fingertips as Bezos reveals his hidden roadmap in his annual letters to shareholders. For the first time, business analyst Steve Anderson unlocks the key lessons, mindset, principles, and steps Bezos used, and continues to use, to make Amazon the massive success it is today. Steve shows business owners, leaders, and CEOs how to apply those same practices and watch their business become more efficient, productive, and successful--fast!

Amazon is the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in sales and they didn't reach that landmark by staying in their comfort zone. Risk taking is the key that unlocked the door to growth at Amazon, but those risks were (and are) intentional, calculated, and strategic. Thomas Edison believed, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. and Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has always linked experimentation and failure with growth and success.

But risk taking can be costly (even disastrous) if you don't know how to use it to your advantage. Fortunately, Bezos has provided every business owner a hidden in plain sight roadmap for how he grew Amazon through his Letter to Shareholders (or as he named them, shareowners) that he has written annually for the past 20 years.

For the first time, Technology and Risk expert Steve Anderson has analyzed and distilled these letters to reveal the key 14 Growth Principles that unlock the lessons, mindset, and steps Bezos has used to make Amazon the massive success it is today.

Now, business owners, leaders, CEOs, employees, and managers can apply these same principles to grow their business to be more efficient, productive, and successful--fast!