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The Chief Repeating Officer PDF

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw

Big Bets fail when leaders don’t repeat the right messages. The Chief Repeating Officer ensures clarity through repetition until it’s second nature to the team.

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Free “Why Memos?” Appendix for Big Bet Leadership

The research and benefits for using memos to think through hard problems and to work as a team is extensive. Here’s the appendix to Big Bet Leadership titled “Why Memos?”.

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Three Chapters from Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader

Amazon’s famous “working backwards” approach to writing narratives, a future-press release and a set of FAQs is outlined in this set of chapters.

Big Bet Leadership GenAI Prompt Worksheet

Supercharge your thinking and writing using these GenAI prompts. Engineered to deliver the Big Bet Leadership memos. Get ready to 10x your ideas and writing with these prompts!

The Digital Leader Newsletter

Strategy and Techniques for Change Agents, Strategists and Innovators. A newsletter from the author of “Big Bet Leadership”, “The Amazon Way” and “Think Like Amazon” John Rossman. A substack newsletter with thousands of subscribers.

Big Bet Preflight Scorecard

Embark on Your Big Bet Journey with Confidence: Introducing the Big Bet Leadership Pre-Flight Scorecard

Ready to elevate your strategic initiatives but unsure where to start? Or do you have an in-progress significant transformation and are unsure if it will be successful? The Big Bet Leadership Pre-Flight Scorecard is the perfect framework to give a holistic and fast score to indicate the strengths and areas of concern.

Big Bet Introduction Video

How’s your digital transformation, growth strategy, operating model transition or AI strategy going? Over 80% are considered failures, with only 0.5% of major initiatives deliver on time, on budget and deliver expected benefits. Big Bet Leadership is a playbook for you to become a transformational leader — a Big Bet Legend. Listen to this short video to get started.

Designing Your Leadership Principles

The Amazon Way is a durable best seller — but it’s not about Amazon! It’s about you and what you can learn from a company like Amazon to innovate, improve customer centricity, creating a data driven and accountable high-performance team. The third edition had a new appendix — how to build your leadership principle. Don’t forget to “etch the in Jell-O”!

The Amazon Way Leadership Poster

The Amazon Way: Amazon’s 14 Leadership Principles is a durable best-seller and has sold upwards of 300,000 copies and translated to eight languages. Here’s the poster.

Big Bet Leadership Story

Introducing the Big Bet Leadership Storyboard Carousel – your summary overview to master transformative leadership and strategic innovation. This carousel distills the essence of “Big Bet Leadership” into a compelling visual journey designed to inspire and equip leaders with the tools and insights to successfully navigate high-stakes transformations.

The Hyper-Digital Era

The Hyper-Digital Era Demands Bold Leadership

Some say we have entered the “age of AI”, but the forces at play are much bigger than AI, or even technology, and the impact is going to create a new era of business winners and losers. Here’s the critical context for why we wrote Big Bet Leadership now.