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A comment on Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter. Parent comment

Re:Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter by iovrthoughtthis on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:11AM (#16874868)
This needs to be tempered hard with the "realistic beliefs".

High standards can lead to heavy anxitety which will kill productivity.

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Re:Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter by jgforbes on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:39AM (#16875355)
Bezos addresses this in the letter, mentioning that leaders have to accurately teach the "scope" of the high standards, where scope is a measure of the time required to achieve the set standards.
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Re:Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter by Madmallard on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:29AM (#16875283)
This happened to me.
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