Some of these changes are normalâlike Annie's palpitations * âwhile others are more serious. People's hearts naturally speed up with emotion or exercise and slow down during sleep. Other dysrhythmias are associated with heart disease and can be life threatening.
âWork hardâ are the first two words of a company motto. An oft-repeated line from Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive, calls the company culture âfriendly and intense, but if push comes to shove weâll settle for intense.â.Itâs hard for me to read this article and not come away with the feeling that something is very wrong, and thereâs a lot of needless burnout and hurt feelings that come from bad elements of company culture,â Mehal Shah, until recently an Amazon engineer, wrote in his own article on LinkedIn.
Bezos's first benchmark was about admiration. He wanted hiring managers to admire anyone they were bringing onto their teams. To Bezos that admiration meant that this was a person who could be an example to others and from whom others could learn. Based on this criterion alone, the standard for hiring is kept sky high.