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New Amazon CEO’s Scary Meetings Make Sense
Andy Jassy calls them “the Chop.” Here’s what other bosses can learn from them.
Stress is sometimes a good thing.
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Andy Jassy, Amazon’s incoming CEO, has a conference room nicknamed the Chop. As Business Insider puts it in a profile of Jassy, “The Chop is where ideas, and sometimes employees, go to get chopped down to size.”
Despite the alarming name, I’m not sure Jassy’s meeting management style is anything to be feared. In fact, other leaders could learn something from it.