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Originally Posted by eschwartz
According to you and a few other people, Jeff Bezos is a psychopath (or possibly a sociopath?
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After reading
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, I was convinced that Jeff Bezos was a good husband and father. If I'm right about that, he couldn't possibly be a psychopath or sociopath.
Amazon, for years, has been too big to be explained by a great man theory of business history. Bezos isn't just the CEO of Amazon, but has other businesses, including a space company and newspaper. I doubt he can successfully dictate the tone of most business units (some of which -- read about Zappos -- have a very different workplace reputation from the Amazon core).
Looking at Bezos's response, I take him at his word that he wants to fix some of what
The New York Times documented. It seems to me likely that this article will, to some extent, improve the company.
I was a little taken aback by Bezos's repeated references to
laughter in the workplace. Depending on what people are laughing about, this could just as easily be a bad sign or a good one. As an employee, I want to be rewarded for meeting mission-critical goals while being respected as a individual who has life responsibilities beyond work. How much laughter there is in my workplace has nothing to do with that.