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If you're an Internet company saw a man covered his face ran out of the room crying, you have to ask yourself, is it might accidentally strayed onto Amazon's site. It is said that every employee of the company had cried at the station.

A few days ago, is not in the dictionary "not reported" four words of the New York Times, revealed the magic company number upside down. In its report, Web retail giant Seattle headquarters working atmosphere, apparently idyllic environment with Silicon Valley technology companies, in contrast. Amazon's standard seems absurd, such as high temperature days, warehouse personnel cannot rest, Amazon also will call an ambulance on standby outside the warehouse. Even several employees in the event of illness, grief or other real problems but was ignored by the company. A lady just after abortion was ordered on a business trip. Return and a woman were recovered from breast cancer were given poor performance reviews, Amazon also warns her that she may lose their jobs at any time.

However, there is no denying that is, Amazon introduced a very competitive product, and achieved rapid growth over the past few years. Maybe for some people, Amazon may be a cold place, make them feel unwelcome, the company's strict job performance evaluations, but also beyond their expectations. But some may feel that this is a challenging environment and can help them do even thought about things they can do.

Rooted in the depths of the company's corporate culture, a desire to do great things--even if it means personal sacrifice to pay to some extent. When a startup is giant founder how to choose

The same situation may appear in other similar companies, such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. That is why it is often said that these companies have "religious" mania. Because many people believe in these companies, what they do is not only a job, but doing something of great social significance, this is worth doing, it needs more dedicated.

Steve had always told the staff, during his lifetime, if anyone is doing is bad, you should "hate him". When iPhone lead designer qiaoniaiwei and other executives questioned his harsh when, he said, projecting a will not help anyone--including those underperforming employees.

Intel founder Glover to tell: a meeting, because an employee was late and Grove he picked up a baseball bat, mercilessly banging on the table, to show their discontent and warnings. In addition, to promote the efficiency of the staff and internal competition, Glover has designed a set of harsh method for calculating employee workload and performance ranking, had the strongest impact. In the intense competition in the long term, the company's revenue from $ 1.9 billion in 1987, jumped to us $ 25.1 billion in 1997 and grew 13 times as much.

Jeff Bezos and other Amazon executives, they are doing something revolutionary. They see Amazon as an entirely different retailers, a more efficient, more customer data retailers. Their enthusiasm for Amazon, and his mania for iPhone icons and color scheme is no different.

No matter what, if your company wants to rapid growth, aggravating existing industries, and fundamentally reinvent something, then you will have to be a paranoid, a robot-like efficiency and lack of smell-like managers.

Last year Germany Berlin on the holding of the third session of the International Trade Union Confederation, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been named "the world's worst bosses." I think he's really don't care what people call him.