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Jeff Bezos: On Establishing High Standards Within an Organization

Jeff Bezos: On Establishing High Standards Within an Organization

One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static – they go up. It’s human nature. We didn’t ascend from our hunter-gatherer days by being satisfied. People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’. I see that cycle of improvement happening at a faster rate than ever before. It may be because customers have such easy access to more information than ever before – in only a few...

Ingvar Kamprad: The Testament of a Furniture Dealer

Ingvar Kamprad: The Testament of a Furniture Dealer

To create a better everyday life for the many people By offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. We have decided once and for all to side with the many. What is good for our customers is also, in the long run, good for us. This is an objective that carries obligations. All nations and societies in both the East and West spend a disproportionate amount of their resources on...