Amazon CEO Criticizes Manager Fiefdoms and Stresses the Need For 'Meritocracy'

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pushing to cut bureaucracy by reducing management layers, according to a recording of a recent internal all-hands meeting obtained by Business Insider. Amazon plans to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by 15% by March-end, a process the company says is now complete and affected a 'relatively small subset of employees.'

'The way to get ahead at Amazon is not to go accumulate a giant team and fiefdom,' Jassy told employees, stressing that successful leaders 'get the most done with the least amount of resources.' Jassy has established a 'No Bureaucracy' email alias that has received over a thousand suggestions, leading to more than 375 changes aimed at speeding operations. 'It's a meritocracy,' Jassy said, urging employees to 'move fast and act like owners.'

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