Amazon Workstyle Assessment: Evaluation and 16 Leadership Principles

Amazon uses its Leadership Principles every day. When they are discussing ideas for new projects or choosing the best way to solve a problem. All prospective employees are judged based on Amazon’s Leadership Principles. The top way to prepare is to think about how you’ve used the Leadership Principles in your previous job positions.

• Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust.
• Ownership: Leaders act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job.”
• Invent and Simplify: Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify.
• Are Right, A Lot: Leaders have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.
• Learn and Be Curious: Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities.
• Hire and Develop the Best: Leaders hire and mentor the best people. They recognize exceptional talent and move them throughout the organization.
• Insist on the Highest Standards: Leaders continually raise the bar and drive their teams to deliver high-quality products, services, and processes.
• Think Big: Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.
• Bias for Action: Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study.
• Frugality: Leaders accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention.
• Earn Trust: Leaders are sincerely open-minded, genuinely listen, and are willing to examine their strongest convictions with humility.
• Dive Deep: Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, and audit frequently. No task is beneath them.
• Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit: Leaders respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion.
• Deliver Results: Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion.
• Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer: Leaders work to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse and more just work environment.
• Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility: Leaders are determined to make better, do better, and be better for customers, employees, partners, and the world.