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Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It

Brian Dumaine

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Summary

Brian Dumaine examines how Amazon works and how other companies respond to it. Drawing on sources inside and outside the company, he explores Jeff Bezos’s focus on customers, innovation and long-term management, alongside Amazon’s use of artificial intelligence. He also considers how businesses borrow from that model or seek ways to compete with it.

  • SourceSimon & Schuster: Bezonomics · Publisher description; 150 sources and Amazon principles

Why read it Our view

A useful way to examine the systems behind a business model: how customer focus, technology and long-term goals reinforce one another, and how competitors can respond.

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  • Jeff BezosBiography subject
    Dumaine examines Amazon and Jeff Bezos’s business approach. This is a book about Bezos and Amazon.
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