From the course: How Getting Curious Helps You Achieve Everything
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Amazon identifies failures quickly—a secret to success
From the course: How Getting Curious Helps You Achieve Everything
Amazon identifies failures quickly—a secret to success
- So can you share with us some of the best examples, or quick ways to get an early failure assessment on something you're trying? - Sure, well, I can give you some examples of some of, my favorite company that is really, really good at this kind of an assessment, is Amazon. And whenever people talk about Amazon, They talk about all of the incredible things that they've invented. And now they're doing, like, one day delivery. Which is just unbelievable. They're just constantly coming up with ways to wow you. And that's part of what's fueling its growth. But what nobody ever talks about are so many projects that they've lost lots and lots of money on. And things that never worked out. Like the Fire phone. Which was a phone that they introduced, it was supposed to be like the phone to end all phones. They lost $175 million on it. And a few months after it came out, they couldn't sell them for 99 cents. And what…
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Ask better questions to get better results1m 23s
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Request help to uncover blind spots2m 11s
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Our success sabotages our future growth1m 31s
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Four questions to expand your curiosity3m 7s
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Amazon identifies failures quickly—a secret to success2m 28s
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Establish failure metrics upfront3m 45s
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Growth requires hearing challenging feedback3m 40s
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Three tips for getting valuable feedback2m 32s
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Curiosity can help you accomplish anything51s
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How to know if you’ve identified your blind spots59s
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