Looking for examples of Leadership Principles gone wild
Current and former Amazonians: Have you been discriminated against by a manager and been harmed by that discrimination (passed over for promotion, denied transfer, placed on LE, or Pivot)? If you’ve been discriminated against and the only justification was not because you failed an essential job duty, but because of a “Leadership Principle,” I would love to hear your story. (Trolls and LP Kool-Aid drinkers need not reply).
Earns Trust. The most weaponized LP at Amazon. When you get a dev list that cannot cite a single design or delivery miss, operational issue, or even lost trust with customers, stakeholders, team members and peers, but only cites that you “failed to earn trust of management,” and provides no SBI feedback, you can rest assured that you fell victim to the Peter Principle.
Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, drunk and dancing on top of tables at reinvent in Vegas. — female
To be fair it was a foam party.
Female or male?
I’ve seen it with those shitty little L6 MBAs desperate to get promoted and assert their superiority over their former classmates. You never know where they’ll go wild. I dealt with one who was honing her “Hire and Develop” by trying to require regular 1:1’s with anyone she worked with, and who asked to see the Forte feedback from people on different teams. And to echo the point about Earns Trust, I see that lamely thrown around a lot too. Often it’s stated as “we’re losing trust” because of some frivolous nonsense.
My husband worked super long hours (as did a lot of his team) because they were understaffed, and his manager said they might put him on pivot for “not being frugal with his hours”. So stupid. He quit almost immediately and had a job somewhere else within a couple weeks, and he’s much happier now and working normal hours.
Not in actual job, but I have gotten more than one interview feedback that I was too Amazonian. They used the word so negatively (aggressive, lack of empathy and teamwork) that I ended up not getting the final offer.
This.