A Jeff Bot leader that joins a company and immediately implements Amazon's ways could be doing more harm than good.
Former Amazon employees have called the company's culture a "penny-pinching, empathy-lacking corporate behemoth," Insider previously reported.
"For organizations that want to adopt an Amazon culture, I would caution them to be careful what you ask for," he said.
An infrastructure to support innovationIt's not impossible for startups to successfully copy Amazon's leadership style and principles.
This lack of infrastructure was one reason Amazon's leadership style seemed to fall flat at the rapid-delivery company Gopuff, Insider previously reported.