BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA

Introducing a Book:

Invent & Wander
The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson

M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.

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https://www.amazon.com

This is an interesting collection of thoughts of a very successful businessperson – Jeff Bezos. The book is published by Harvard Business Review Press and Public Affairs. The name Jeff Bezos is enough to attract the students and others to read this book. But the book offers very useful ideas and concepts for all who wish to start a business, to teach courses in business administration and who want to do research for their higher degrees in business administration. Walter Isaacson, well-known biographer of several popular books on several leading personalities in human history including Albert Einstein, former CEO of CNN and editor of Time magazine, has written an insightful introduction to this book. He considers Jeff Bezos to be “gifted with creativity and imagination, passionately curious, has the trait to love and to connect the arts and science, truly innovative and creative, retaining a childlike sense of wonder as found in Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs”. He declares, “trifecta – humanities, technology, business – is what has made him [Jeff Bezos] one of our era’s most successful and influential innovators.” This Introduction section by Walter Isaccson gives an excellent and inspiring biography of Jeff Bezos as a young person. Thus, this section is equally important for us to read and identify the childhood, youth and college and university student features of Jeff Bezos which ultimately led him to become an unparalleled businessperson employing technology, human values, etc.

The Introduction by Walter Isaccson identifies five most important lessons from Jeff Bezo’s writings: “1. Focus on the long term. 2. Focus relentlessly and passionately on the customer. 3. Avoid PowerPoint and slide presentations. 4. Focus on the big decisions. 5. Hire the right people.”

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M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
msthirumalai2@gmail.com

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