Think Like Amazon
Learn how to apply Amazon’s core principles and innovation frameworks to elevate your business and career. Join Jorge Luis Pando, an 8-year Amazon veteran who’s helped over 70,000 Amazonians boost productivity, as he dives into real-world insights from leaders who’ve transformed their work using Amazon-inspired methods like customer obsession and systems thinking. With global experience in product, tech, and marketing, Jorge brings a fresh perspective to every conversation.
Whether you lead a startup, growing business, or team outside of tech, each episode delivers practical tools to innovate, scale, and lead with confidence. Follow us on LinkedIn for updates: https://www.linkedin.com/company/think-like-amazon-podcast/
Think Like Amazon
Vocally Self-critical leadership with Skyler Ramirez
Skyler spent 8 years at Amazon in retail and data engineering leadership roles, including forming a team within Amazon Hardlines to identify and drive process improvements at scale to deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings. Key to succeeding in these nascent and disruptive projects were the lessons Skyler learned that helped his team follow the Vocally Self-critical leadership principle.
Whether you’re embarking on a new project, trying to earn trust with stakeholders, or continue to find your team running into roadblocks, you are likely to find valuable takeaways from Skyler’s examples and insights in this episode.
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Skyler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skylerramirez/
More from the episode:
4:37 – The history of the Vocally Self Critical leadership principle
6:30 – How being self critical can produce faster problem solving
12:00 – How to measure success on nascent projects
18:15 – Why being vocally self-critical is always better than ignoring an issue
22:53 – How to help your team become vocally self-critical
27:45 – The growing value of self-critical leaders across top tech companies