Media: Amazon CEO Bezos: Establish a culture of telling the truth, allowing even the least experienced to challenge the highest level
Bezos emphasized that any high-performing organization—whether a sports team, a company, or a political group—must establish mechanisms and a culture that support "telling the truth." Science is essentially a formal system for seeking truth.
He shared a specific practice: during meetings, he always speaks last. The reason is that if he speaks first, even those who are determined and have strong judgment will unconsciously be influenced and change their original positions. He suggests that the most senior person should speak last, ideally letting the least experienced person speak first, and then expressing opinions in order of seniority, from lowest to highest, ensuring that everyone's views can be presented in an unfiltered way.
Additionally, he pointed out that insights often do not come from hard data, but from intuition and accumulated cases. For such judgments that "feel right," they should not be ignored, but rather used as a starting point to collect data for verification.
He also warned about the optimism bias: when a new set of data can be interpreted in both "good news" and "bad news" ways, people tend to choose the optimistic interpretation. He suggested that we should assume the "bad interpretation is correct" until the data proves otherwise.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1857817699415048/
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