Ethan Evans

Do it here.

So that's part of it is people are afraid of being wrong.

And some of them have been smacked for being wrong.

How could you do that?

You know, you didn't have the authority because there are controlling people who are afraid to delegate.

And so they learn fear.

The second thing is.

When it comes to like coming up with a solution or proposing something, I don't want to be blamed is a stronger thing than I see the reward.

So I think what differentiates people at Amazon, we had an ownership leadership principle, which is part of how Amazon runs.

It has a set of principles.

And at one point they were considering removing it.

And I led the fight to keep it.

And some of the words in it that I helped create say an owner never says that's not my job.

And what happens is people feel like, oh, making this decision or taking this risk.

Well, that's not my job.

I'm a content producer or I'm a negotiator.

It's not my job.

I don't.

And what we want, of course, as founders.

Or leaders in a company is people who see, OK, I might not be the right person to do this work, but since nobody's doing it, I'm going to jump on it either and do my best job or find who should own it.