Jeff Bezos, who has taken the place of Steve Jobs as the leading tech CEO,  is one of my favorite leaders, mainly because of his long term vision and strategic focus. His willingness to ignore the Wall Street and its dangerous obsession with quarterly earnings is legendary and helps him focus on his long term strategy for Amazon.

In this interview with Forbes, he details 10 Leadership ideas that he practices to keep Amazon.com on top. Two of ideas that I found very attractive are

a. “Obsess over customers” (everyone will agree that this is a cliche, but is very fundamental)

b. ” We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time”.

The full article can be found here.

The cover story on Amazon.com could be found here.

Which one is your favorite leadership idea?