“As a result of a highly successful advisory and consulting career, Ram Charan has studied innumerable companies and their management systems. The Amazon Management System challenges readers and their organizations to understand and then implement the management system that shortly will be demanded by their customers.”
“Amazon is secretive, but it is not a black box. The management secrets of this supremely successful company are here, revealed by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. You can’t afford not to read this fascinating book.”
“Ram does it again. He distills the maximum brilliance from a very complex company into the minimum number of pages, leaving the reader smarter and better prepared.”
“Most of us watch in awe as Amazon dominates the competition with nonstop rapid-fire disruption. But they are no outlier. Anyone can replicate their success by learning Amazon’s management system as revealed in this short but powerful book.”
“Amazon’s incredible success is a premier case study of organization reinvention. Ram and Julia discover and define six building blocks of Amazon’s success that can be adapted to any organization. Their easy to read ideas and simple to do actions template are the playbook for anyone wanting to create a more effective organization.”
“No company should try to be like Amazon. But every company can learn from Amazon. Ram Charan and Julia Yang reveal how you can adapt elements from Amazon into your own 21st-century management system to become stronger, smarter, faster, and more successful.”
“As I was reading this short, to-the-point book, I paused and reflected about our own management system and determined what I needed to change. Whether it’s data, machine learning; cash flow, hiring or customer obsession, Amazon is the leader to learn from and this book is the guide.”
“[Ram] has the rare ability to distill meaningful from meaningless and transfer it in a quiet, effective way without destroying confidences.”
“[Ram is my] secret weapon.”
“[Ram]’s like your conscience,”
“The most influential consultant alive.”