Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies are Learning From It [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

As new condition orange boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes and Index. "A touchstone book, significant in helping people understand some of the big underlying forces changing the world we live in.Crisp and incisive." - Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great. "Surprising.Bezonomics will open your eyes to what the company really is, how it works, and what it's likely to become." - John Huey, former editor-in-cheif of Time Inc. and coauthor with Sam Walton of Made in America. "More than any previous book, Bezonomics reveals why 'the Amazon habit' is one in which we all increasingly indulge. Dumaine spoke to many of the company's top execs, walked the warehouse floors, and listened to the fears and forecasts of competitors. The result is an insightful look at how Jeff Bezos built a trillion-dollar colossus from a theory about customer engagement." - NIR Eyal, author. "Amazon is changing not only our buying lives but also our managing models. Brian Dumaine takes us inside the enterprise to see exctly how Jeff Bezos and his legions are doing it, sourcing anything in sight by overnight or less. A game changer, the company has become one of America's most omnivorous and disruptive start-ups ever. Buy Bezonomics today." - Micahel Useem, professor and director of the Wharton Leadership Center, University of Pennsylvania. "If you want to know about Amazon - really know about Amazon (and who doesn't?) - then you have to read this book. Brian Dumaine's deeply reported yet accessbile work takes you inside this secretive behemoth that's rewriting the rules of business and changing the world." - Andy Serwer, editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Finance. "How does Amazon do it all? You'll marvel at the tech giant's magic after reading Bezonomics." - David A. Vise, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "From award-winning Fortune magazine writer Brian Dumaine comes an in-depth, revelatory, and unbiased look at Amazon's increasingly dominant business model, the competitors either imitating or trying to outfox the company , and the ways "Bezonomics" is shaping the life of every American consumer. Like Henry Ford, Sam Walton, or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford, Walmart, and Apple, Jeff Bezos has become the era's biggest business story. The richest man on the planet, Amazon's CEO has built one of the most efficient wealth creation machines in history with 2 percent of U.S. household income currently being spent on the hundreds of millions of products speedily shipped from the company's global warehouses. The convenience, however, will come at a cost. Bezonomics," the author argues, will lead to massive job disruptions and our lives being affected by technology in ever more invasive ways. To uncover the truth of why Amazon has become an unstoppable - and increasingly emulated - force, Brian Dumaine interviewed 150 sources inside and outside of the company. In Bezonomics he unveils the underlying principles Bezos uses to achieve his dominance - customer obsession, extreme innovation, and long-term thinking, all driven by artificial intelligence - and shows how these tactics are being replicated by companies across the U.S., in China, and elsewhere. Dumain also spotlights the firms, large and small, that have managed to Amazon-proof their businesses by discovering what the Seattle juggernaut is not good at. Revealed here will be a trove of tips for surviving in the Age of Amazon. A gold mine for some, and a threat for others, "Bezonomics" has become a life-shaping force that every American needs to know more about." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.…