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“I could only think that I could have killed Jeff Bezos, Amazon and the future of online trade”
The book " Stavka on itself. How to see the possibilities, not to miss them and build a dream career ”Anne Hayette (goes to the publishing house“ Mann, Ivanov and Ferber ”) can cause curiosity the reader who is convinced that stress and despair are things that destroy us and should be avoided at all costs. It’s not quite so, the author is ready to argue, as a personal assistant, who managed to work for the creator of Amazon Jeff Bezos and the ex-chairman of the board of directors of Alphabet (Google) Eric Schmidt, as well as Marissu Mayer even before she headed “Yahoo". “For many years I spent side by side with three outstanding leaders,” Hayette emphasizes with pride. In the head of the book we have chosen, he recalls how she suggested a decision that nearly drove one of her former bosses - and in some ways grateful to fate for the experience gained. “In 2003, I almost killed Jeff Bezos,” Hayette hurries to tell her story from the very first line. “Thank God, my career did not end there.”
For several months I have been working in Amazon, when Jeff came up to me with an unusual offer. He wanted to inspect several sites in Texas, but he had little time to travel. He mysteriously laid a piece of room with long rows of numbers on my table. At first I thought that this was another puzzle, but then-not without reason I was the daughter of a former pilot-I guessed that these were GPS coordinates.
I compiled a map with the location of all the plots of interest to it and realized that they were too far from each other: they could not go by car during the time that Jeff designated. Charter air travel also did not solve the problem, because real estate was too far from the airports and the same waste of time was obtained.
I shared the conclusions with manager John. “I don’t think Jeff’s idea can be implemented,” I said. “Either you need more time, or reduce the list of places that he wants to visit.”
As soon as I agreed, John vigorously stated: “No! This is not an answer. "
I sat back at the table, began to reflect, and suddenly it dawned on me: there is a way to move faster than by car, and without difficulties when taking off and landing, as in the case of an airplane. Helicopter!
I joyfully talked about the idea of John.
"Great, get down to business!" - he answered, without raising his head, as if to rent a helicopter - a trifling business.
I was a little over twenty, and I had never rented helicopters. In addition, I did not have a single “helicopter” contact in the notebook. After a minute thought, I decided to contact a charter airline, the services of which we used to fly from Seattle to Texas, and find out whether it is possible to rent a helicopter from them. And everything worked out!
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We checked security with a group of staff, and for the first time in my life I rented a helicopter. To my great relief, the trip passed safely and Jeff returned with even more enthusiasm relative to the new project. (Then I had no idea what he was planning to build). A few weeks later, Jeff asked me to organize a flight to Texas again. He wanted to look at his favorite place again before buying it.
Jeff and the pilot went on a trip and planned to return the next day. Everything that happened next, I can lose the frame behind the scenes, as in a painfully slow shoot.
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