Charles Duhigg, author of bestsellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better It is a delightful romp through Silicon Valley and beyond.” “This book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand how successful companies operate in the age of the tech giants, and anyone hoping to explore the secrets behind those giants’ dominance. Alex Kantrowitz is both thorough and critical while reminding us to remain optimistic about our future living alongside big tech.” - Scott Galloway, bestselling author of “Always Day One is the gangster read that provides an inside look at the culture that has allowed the tech titans to perform infanticide on their competition. And he shows the way forward for everyone who wants to compete with - and beat - the titans. Kantrowitz uncovers the engine propelling the tech giants' continued dominance at a stage when most big companies begin to decline. It might sound radical, but those who don't act like it's always day one do so at their own peril. Through 130 interviews with insiders from Mark Zuckerberg to hourly workers, award-winning BuzzFeed News journalist Alex Kantrowitz reveals the culture, technology and processes the tech giants have developed to sustain success in a business world where no advantage is safe. Living in Day One keeps them ahead of smaller, typically-nimbler competitors seeking to take them out. Day Two, in Jeff Bezos's own words, is "stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death."Īmazon and fellow tech titans Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have stayed on top by operating in Day One: Instead of hunkering down and protecting core advantages, they reinvent constantly.
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Mark Cuban, Serial entrepreneur, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks.Īt Amazon, "Day One" is code for inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy. This simple phrase captured Bezos's aspiration for Amazon to grow aggressively in scale and scope while preserving the entrepreneurial vitality of a startup and building on the numerous advantages of a large company at the same time."The Tech Giants are far from perfect, but Always Day One reveals the inventive elements of their culture that entrepreneurs can and should learn from." Day 2" has proved to be an immediate and useful way. The bar has to continuously go up." Day 2 is not an optionīezos's evocative and sticky model of "Day 1 vs. Bezos's goal is to defy the law of entropy increase at Amazon: "We want to fight entropy. This is the law of "entropy increase." In a way, it is a depressing law because it states that, no matter how great a company is now, without deliberate vigilance and institutional determination to fight entropy, it will fall into mediocrity.
In the world of business, the inevitable path of any organization, if left unattended, will lead to decrease in efficiency and vitality, and increase in complexity and rigidity. In short, in the world of physics, the total entropy, or disorder, of the universe is continually increasing. The second law of thermodynamics states that for a thermodynamically defined process to actually occur, the sum of the entropies of the participating bodies must increase. In thermodynamics, entropy is a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder. That's why he borrowed the term "entropy," an indicator of a system's disorder.
He earned his MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with high distinction and taught as a faculty member.
Ram Charan is the author of 27 books, including The New York Times bestseller "Execution." He is a world-renowned advisor to CEOs, business unit managers, and boards of directors.
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