To give Amazon and Bezos credit, their 14 leadership principles give a pretty balanced framework for decision making. Customer obsession and working backwards to help focus on what's important, disagree and commit to resolve differences that root in intuition or assumptions, bias for action to minimize analysis paralysis, and etc. It's amazing that Amazon can sustain its size for so long. But yeah, eventually it is people who enforces culture, and eventually an empire falls.
The LPs are bullshit. They are basically templates that the people in power can (ab)use to force their narrative. Want others to shut up and do the job? "Disagree and Commit". Don't want to spend money on employee's well-being? "Frugality". All else? "Customer Obsession". And what does "Are Right, A Lot" even mean?
