Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, And What The World's Companies Are Learning From It

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An easy and engaging read...Quite often, though, it is eye-opening Hugo Rifkind, The Times
Does a valuable job of explaining how Amazon sees itself Financial Times

Amazon is the business story of the decade. Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history.

Like a giant squid, Amazon s tentacles are squeezing industry after industry and, in the process, upsetting the state of technology, the economy, job creation and society at large. So pervasive is Amazon s impact that business leaders in almost every sector need to understand how this force of nature operates and how they can respond to it.

Saying you can ignore Jeff Bezos is equivalent to saying you could ignore Henry Ford or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford and Apple. These titans monumentally changed how we do business, redefining the rules on a global scale. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the new disruptor on the block. He has created a 21st century algorithm for business and societal disruption. He has turned the retail industry inside out, is swiftly dominating cloud computing, media and advertising, and now has his sights trained on every other domain where money changes hands and business is transacted.

But the principles by which Bezos has achieved his dominance - customer obsession, extreme innovation and long-term management, all supported by artificial intelligence turning a virtuous-cycle flywheel - are now being borrowed and replicated. Bezonomics is for some a goldmine, for others a threat, for still others a life-shaping force, whether they re in business or not.

Brian Dumaine s Bezonomics answers the fundamental question: how are Amazon and its imitators affecting the way we live, and what can we learn from them?

About the Author

Brian Dumaine is an award-winning journalist and contributing writer at Fortune, where he has worked for the last three decades. He is executive editor of Fortune Small Business, which has more than a million readers. His work there has put him in regular touch with top CEOs, consultants and academics, and he has written stories about a wide range of enterprises, all of which makes him the perfect man to pull together the complex story of Amazon. He lives in New York state.