π "Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death."
Bezos wrote that in his 2016 letter to shareholders, when Amazon was already a giant and he was still worried about it getting slow.
The part I keep coming back to is about decisions. Most of them, he says, should be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had.
Most of us wait for 95%. One more report, one more meeting, one more approval. I see it in every company that has grown a little.
The letter is free on Amazon's own site, and short enough for a coffee: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2016-letter-to-shareholders
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