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Former Amazon VP Bill Carr: ‘Working backwards is the way to create breakthrough innovation’

Qualtrics HR

Bill talks about how this impacted him personally: “I would argue that the success of my organization (Amazon Digital Services) was born out of one of the most abject failures of my career, which was the initial launch of the Amazon video service. Sometime in 2005 [a team of Jeff’s executive leaders met]. It was branded Amazon Unbox.

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Samantha Milner: “Just Do It”

Thrive Global

As a part of our series about entrepreneurs who transformed something they did for fun into a full-time career, I had the pleasure of interviewing Samantha Milner. My parents were also entrepreneurs and were the first in the county to open a video rental business. Samantha is a food blogger by day at Recipe This and mum of 3 by night.

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Diane Helbig: “The first thing we can do is listen with an empathetic ear”

Thrive Global

As a part of my series about how to be great at closing sales without seeming pushy, obnoxious, or salesy, I had the pleasure of interviewing Diane Helbig. My new book, Succeed Without Selling launched as an ebook at the end of May and the paperback will be published in December. That continued until he passed away in 2005.