Recipe For Success: Jeff Bezos
Who is one of your mentors?
This is a case study in success. What is success? How do you define it? Who has been successful, from your perspective? I want you to define success for yourself and find an example of this success in the people around you. The person can be famous or family. Success is everywhere. I want you to find it and examine it. What made this person successful? Through examining success in others it helps us see a path to success ourselves. I want you to practice being successful in all areas of your life. So, engage in this case study and find and fill in the information listed below. I used Bill Gates as an example
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Born: January 12, 1964 in Albuquereque, New Mexico
Personal Success Definition
I define success as someone who does something that they love and accomplished and achieved successfulnes and give back to others
Jeff Bezos is the CEO of many successful businesses like Amazon. He has been very successful and is now the richest man in the world. He has given 100 million to help Americas hungry during the virus
Skills for Success
Describe what skills did they need to master to become successful?
Jeff Bezos is a Hardcore Realist, Focusing on Process, not Failure, and being a smart Investor. Jeff is a realist he thinks and weighs all the possibilities and probabilities. Before launching Amazon in the world, Jeff had accepted the fact that the venture might fail and the investment would go down the drain. He has the habit of recognizing the adverse effects and taking the decision based on his assessment. He has experimented and has taken numerous risky decisions, and also that could include investing and takes chances on a company.
How They Used These Skills
Explain how did they use these skills to achieve success?
When seeing the internet rate grow he came up with the idea at first it was a book store and he invested in it, within its first month of launch Amazon sold books in every state in the U.S. and 45 countries around the world
Challenges Overcome
Describe what challenges they had to overcome to be successful?
a toxic mindset one that reflects such basic, human, emotional needs that it’s hard to condemn people for it. Recognizing this, Bezos shared a technique to overcome it in the annual shareholder letter he released on April 17, 2017. Bezos wrote that he values making fast decisions, which often means deciding before you have all the information you’d like. He puts the sweet spot at acting when you have 70 percent of the needed information. The lack of information makes tough decisions even tougher, however, and that prompts the cascade of leadership challenges described above. To overcome them, Bezos introduced a simple linguistic trick that stops these toxic mindsets in their tracks and cuts off the metastasis of difficulties.
Significant Work
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https://www.geekwire.com/2019/jeff-bezos-first-job-ad-amazon-turns-25-heres-weak-modern-standards/
Jeff Bezos and his company Amazon
Resources
https://www.businessalligators.com/jeff-bezos-personality-traits/
https://www.investopedia.com/investing/how-jeff-bezos-got-be-worlds-richest-man/