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	<title>Comments on: Secrets of Success at Amazon.com</title>
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		<title>By: Russ Egbert</title>
		<link>http://philcooke.com/amazon/#comment-3316</link>
		<dc:creator>Russ Egbert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;WHOA!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is an awesome approach. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Christian world would not know what to do with that kind of emvironment. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finding, empowering and allowing experts to thrive, create and do what they know to do...wow. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a wonderful world it would be.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WHOA!</p>
<p>That is an awesome approach. </p>
<p>The Christian world would not know what to do with that kind of emvironment. </p>
<p>Finding, empowering and allowing experts to thrive, create and do what they know to do&#8230;wow. </p>
<p>What a wonderful world it would be.</p>
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		<title>By: Alan Smithee</title>
		<link>http://philcooke.com/amazon/#comment-3317</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan Smithee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The Amazon approach is so cool it&#039;s beyond comment. This is definitely clip &amp; save material. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At my last management position producing a weekly Christian TV show I started to foster an environment whereby a once downtrod staff were empowered to offer ideas, make decisions, fix problems themselves, and just think wild, crazy ideas. The show &amp; staff needed to change. Within 11 months I was ignored by the pastor, isolated by other leaders and finally &quot;laid off&quot; by church management. I regret nothing. That said, best beware that often there are levels of management (Christian or not) that hate to embrace change and who see your creative flow as a threat. Creativity and innovation either trickle down from the top (Amazon&#039;s Jeff Bezos) or rise up from the bottom (the common worker). When innovation is applauded by leadership and people thrive, you&#039;ve got organizational karma, baby.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Amazon approach is so cool it&#39;s beyond comment. This is definitely clip &amp; save material. </p>
<p>At my last management position producing a weekly Christian TV show I started to foster an environment whereby a once downtrod staff were empowered to offer ideas, make decisions, fix problems themselves, and just think wild, crazy ideas. The show &amp; staff needed to change. Within 11 months I was ignored by the pastor, isolated by other leaders and finally &quot;laid off&quot; by church management. I regret nothing. That said, best beware that often there are levels of management (Christian or not) that hate to embrace change and who see your creative flow as a threat. Creativity and innovation either trickle down from the top (Amazon&#39;s Jeff Bezos) or rise up from the bottom (the common worker). When innovation is applauded by leadership and people thrive, you&#39;ve got organizational karma, baby.</p>
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		<title>By: gilliebean</title>
		<link>http://philcooke.com/amazon/#comment-3318</link>
		<dc:creator>gilliebean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;Doors for desks&quot; = frugal?  Think: hip and cool.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are the princples that are being taught in current MBA programs to those studying relationship marketing and the service-profit chain.  Thankfully, academics have found a way to prove scientifically, that these &quot;people-oriented&quot; mangement princples actually do have a positive impact on the bottom line!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Love it! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Doors for desks&quot; = frugal?  Think: hip and cool.  </p>
<p>These are the princples that are being taught in current MBA programs to those studying relationship marketing and the service-profit chain.  Thankfully, academics have found a way to prove scientifically, that these &quot;people-oriented&quot; mangement princples actually do have a positive impact on the bottom line!</p>
<p>Love it! </p>
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		<title>By: joshmshep</title>
		<link>http://philcooke.com/amazon/#comment-3319</link>
		<dc:creator>joshmshep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&quot;Getting rid of the influence of the HiPPO’s, the highest paid people in the room.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is always a bias there, even (perhaps especially?) in ministries and churches.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>&quot;Getting rid of the influence of the HiPPO’s, the highest paid people in the room.&quot;</span></p>
<p>There is always a bias there, even (perhaps especially?) in ministries and churches.  </p>
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