In this episode, we explore leadership principles as tools to navigate complex situations and daily challenges.
We discuss how these short, memorable phrases can serve as practical decision-making tools, become mental triggers to drive positive or desired behavior, and drive culture (both at work and sometimes at home).
From overcoming procrastination to dealing with setbacks, we share a few of our personal leadership principles and techniques, like reframing procrastination, avoiding dwelling on mistakes (while still learning from them), and recognizing battles that are not worth fighting.
Because we worked at Amazon for a long time, we examine Amazon's leadership principles to show how these frameworks can work as genuine decision-making tools and culture drivers rather than empty corporate statements (well, some of them at least :-) ). We explore specific examples like “Disagree and Commit” and how this could be useful in meetings and decision making, or how the tension between “Bias for Action” and “Dive Deep” is intentional (and even valuable).
We also cover how these principles are used in interviewing processes and offer advice for candidates preparing for behavioral interviews at companies that use similar frameworks.
Remember, if you use Leadership Principles in your life or work, feel free to share them with us in the comments or in LinkedIn, we would love to hear from you and learn new ones.
Episode Notes:
"Good" from Jocko Willink (Link to the Akira song/version which I like)
