To be the CEO of a fortune 500 company you must be among the smartest people in the world. Running a billion dollar company is a lot of pressure. Every decision made must be carefully thought out. Most of these men and women probably share a similar growth mindset. A person with a growth mindset is not afraid to fail, and always thinks a few steps ahead. They also understand that you can control your own outcome by working hard and staying dedicated. Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, is someone who achieved his dreams by using a growth mindset. Having a growth mindset requires you to accept failure and grow from it. Jeff Bezos is no stranger to failure but it has never stopped him from becoming one of the richest men in the world. Bezos has even said “I’ve made billions of dollars of failures at Amazon.com. Literally.” In achieving his goal of growing Amazon he used his growth mindset. Bezos has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into companies that had failed. He lost a whole lot of money but did not give up investing. Bezos admitted that he had failed but keeps investing because he knows one successful investment could make up for his losses. It’s decisions like these that helped grow his company into what it is today. …show more content…
This was a project launched by Bezos to try and compete with Apple, Samsung, and other big companies. The phone received a poor response and Amazon was forced to drop the price before admitting it was a failure. They lost about 170 million dollars during the project. However, Bezos did admit his failure and was not discouraged by it. He saw it as a good lesson for his company. If he had a fixed mindset he may have been very discouraged and could have panicked. His growth mindset allowed him to continue on and grow his company even more despite his