Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Agility, AI Strategy, and the Changing Role of Managers
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HBR IdeaCast
The other thing we noticed was that like most companies, people were largely working remote, and when we brought people back to the office three days a week in May of ’23, we noticed that a lot of things about how we were inventing and how we were collaborating got better. A lot of our best inventions have been after really messy wandering meetings when we’ve been trying to invent something where we haven’t quite gotten there, and we’ve resolved ourself to go have another meeting and in a few days figured out, and then three people stay behind in a whiteboard and actually map out what it was they couldn’t figure out, or on the way back to their office, they figure it out, or later in the day they walk by each other’s offices.