The summer of 2024 marks 30 years since Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage. Those who want to learn more about Bezos, compete with Amazon, or both, will find food for thought in these 11 books that explain the principles and strategies behind the company’s success (some praising, some criticizing).
Clash of powers: Trump, Bezos and the Washington Post Martin Barron
Clash of forces
While Baron’s book is not about e-commerce, it does offer insight into Jeff Bezos’ leadership style. The author began his eight-year tenure as editor-in-chief just before Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013. The author offers an inside view of how reporting decisions were made during a tumultuous news cycle.
Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets Jason Del Rey
Winner Sells All
Amazon has evolved from a bookstore to a general retailer. Collision Course Del Rey chronicles the ongoing battle that is putting billions of dollars and millions of jobs at risk and has huge implications for consumers, retailers and the future of shopping.
Bezos’ Blueprint: The Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman Carmine Gallo
Bezos’ Blueprint
Amazon’s influence is undeniable, and this book aims to distill the techniques Amazon’s leaders use to write, collaborate, innovate, and pitch, and present them as tools that others can apply in their own organizations.
Unleashing Amazon: Jeff Bezos and the Creation of a Global Empire Blood Stone
Amazon’s Limitations
Stone, the Bloomberg journalist, revisits the themes of his 2013 best-selling book, “The Everything Store,” which chronicled Amazon’s rise from a startup to a multibillion-dollar business, this time exploring how the company and its founder transformed from a start-up into a global powerhouse.
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Colin Bryher and Bill Carr
Calculate backwards
Both authors joined Amazon early on and worked closely with Jeff Bezos as senior executives for over a decade. They share their experiences to create an inspiring story and practical business guide.
Inventions and Travels: The Collected Works of Jeff Bezos Foreword by Walter Isaacson
Inventions and Travels
The book brings together speeches, interviews, annual shareholder letters, and numerous case studies to understand Bezos’ evolution.
All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve Exceptional Results Robert Bruce Shaw
All In
Based on extensive research, the show will feature business titans Jeff Bezos, Elon Musktakes a look at people from Travis Kalanick’s “The Good and the Bad” to technology pioneer Steve Jobs, explaining their incredible accomplishments and the shortcomings of their “all-in” leadership styles.
Bezonomics: How Amazon is changing our lives and what the world’s best companies are learning Brian Dumaine
Bezonomics
Dumaine combines a lively history of Amazon’s rise with speculation about where it might go next. Next It profiles companies in a variety of sectors, including advertising, healthcare, and banking. It also delves into how companies around the world are adopting Amazon’s model, and shares how “Amazon compatible”Your business.
199 Quotes from the Great Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos Olivia Longley
199 Best Quotes
It is a compilation of Jeff Bezos’ thoughts on family support, Amazon, Blue Origin, space colonization, leadership, motivation, failure and success, organized into four thematic sections with links to sources.
Bezos Letter: 14 principles for growing your business like Amazon Steve Anderson, Karen Anderson
A letter from Bezos
Business analyst Steve Anderson calls Bezos’ annual letter to shareholders a “hidden road map” that business leaders should follow to make their companies more efficient, powerful and successful, outlining key growth principles such as “customer obsession” and “fostering ownership.”
All War Dana Mattioli
All War
The book is a scathing critique of the practices that led the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon last year, criticizing the company’s e-commerce and cloud computing businesses. It’s gotten too big To regulate. I call this book “10 recommended business books for summerThe book was shortlisted for the Financial Times/Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024 award. award.
