“Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.” – Jeff Bezos (Executive Chairman of Amazon)

This full-day session combines discussions and workshops to explore the leadership and organizational practices of successful organizations, that foster an agile and innovative company culture. Participants will dive into various corporate mental models, which empower employee autonomy and encourage bias for action. They will practice mechanisms that keep innovation customer-focused and explore tools and practices that ensure consistency in company values, even during periods of rapid growth. Additionally, the session provides an opportunity to compare the approaches and strategies used by various successful organizations, like Amazon, Netflix, Tesla, or Apple, offering valuable insights and actionable takeaways for enhancing organizational agility and innovation.

1. Dive deep into company culture
2. 1. Mental models: mission, business flywheel, principles
   2. 1. Workshop I: Company mission and principles
   3. Behaviours: mechanisms for innovation and fast decision making, Amazon’s narrative culture
   4. 1. Workshop II: Mechanisms
   5. Artifacts: corporate governance, self-service tools without gatekeepers
   6. 1. Workshop III: Artifacts
3. Organisational principles and examples for growth, agility and ownership
4. 1. Enabling decision making: tenets in practice
   2. Fostering focus and ownership with autonomous teams, Amazon’s 2-pizza team structure
   3. Single-threaded ownership against competing priorities
   4. 1. Workshop IV: Organisation
5. Employee experience in high-velocity organisations
6. 1. ​Hiring for culture fit, recruitment methods to achieve talent density, Amazon’s Bar Raiser mechanism
   2. Talent development and retention
   3. ​Employee and team evaluation, candor and the art of candid feedback
   4. 1. Workshop V: Hiring and talent development

By the end of the course, participants will gain a practical understanding of the principles and best practices driving agility and innovation in leading global corporations. They will explore real-life examples of impactful corporate mission statements, leadership principles, and internal management tools. 

The course will cover key mechanisms spanning the employee lifecycle, from hiring and talent development to performance evaluation, providing actionable insights to apply within their own organizations.

Classroom training supported with online knowledge summary, refresh and testing