The Digital Leader Newsletter
Moving Forward to Get Back to Day 1
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. —Lance Armstrong I am a cycling fan. My wife and I became fans of Lance...
What’s the Right Platform Strategy for Your Business???
Many think that “being a platform business” is beyond their business, beyond their capabilities, beyond this quarter’s...
The Nine Easy Steps (and One Lie) to Avoid Disruption
The species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it...
Strike Three? Lessons from Launching the Amazon Marketplace
In 2002, Amazon launched the marketplace business. Today, that business accounts for well over 50% of all orders at...
The Digital Leader Newsletter: How to ACTUALLY Become Customer-Centric
A Superset of Principles to Accelerate Your Strategy How can we attain a goal or a trait if we can’t define it? How do...
The Digital Leader Newsletter: Insights From Peter Thiel’s “Zero to One”
Based off a series of lectures Peter Thiel gave at his alma mater Stanford University in 2012, this book delivers to...
The Digital Leader Newsletter: One -Way or Two-Way Door?
One of the advantages small organizations have over large enterprises is the speed at which they can make decisions....
The One Decision to Make on Innovation — Do We Develop a System for Innovation or Just Have Hope?
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.— Reid Hoffman No one...
Principles — Swim Lanes for Strategy and Culture
Any leader, from a CEO of a large company to the manager of a small team, is trying to get more throughput, more...
What Sucks??? — Online Order Grocery Pickup
To use a now familiar refrain, “the pandemic has accelerated the future”. None has seen a bigger acceleration than...
Amazon Way Poster
A cool visualization poster of The Amazon Way. Yours free to download
About John
John Rossman
John was an executive at Amazon.com where he played a key role in launching the Marketplace business and third-party selling platform and led the merchant services business.
Rossman Partners
