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
How Amazon leaders Dive Deep with Allon Katz
Allon spent nearly 7 years at Amazon, holding senior roles across both Amazon’s e-commerce retail category businesses and as Director of Prime Now. During these roles, Allon refined his ability to dive deep into a business and understand its critical levers, a skill he first acquired as a management consultant and now applies post-Amazon as he leads portfolio operations in private equity.
In this episode, you’ll hear how leaders can continue to stay connected to the key details of their business as their scope increases, how to prioritize when to dive deep, and why being data focused is key to the Customer Obsession principle. Tune in to hear more great ideas and approaches from Allon in this episode.
Mentioned in the podcast:
Allon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allonkatz/
More from the episode:
3:00 – How to stay connected to the details of a business as your scope increases
7:50 – How diving deep can help unlock resources for your team
8:35 – Ideas for being data driven in a nascent business
10:10 – How Amazon leaders prioritize where to focus amidst large amounts of data
13:25 – Finding balance between diving deep and operating at a high level
15:57 – When to trust anecdotes over aggregate data [Prime Now example]
20:34 – How a focus on data encourages an culture of ownership
22:50 – Why investing in diving deep early in a role pays dividends later in effective problem solving
24:01 – A mental model for pinpointing which data points to focus your time on
25:44 – Applying the Dive Deep principle in private equity work