Review of "Winning @ Amazon: The Business Memoir You Always Wanted to Read," by Gisela Hausman

 Review of

Winning @ Amazon: The Business Memoir You Always Wanted to Read, by Gisela Hausmann ISBN 978-1-7371990-3-8

Five out of five stars

The ultimate insider book

 Gisela Hausmann and I share one major characteristic, we have both been interacting with Amazon almost since the company went national. We have both seen it grow from a questionable business that begged for input in the form of posted reviews and books offered for sale. It is now of course a behemoth that has branched out into many different areas, and it continues to expand.

 What Gisela has to offer is actual insider activity, for she has spent an extended period of time working in a fulfillment warehouse. This book is a description of some of her experiences as an author as well as what happened when she helped move the merchandise from point A to point B along the fulfillment chain.

 Some of what she experienced bordered on the absurd, in the sense that it seems that the company finds it difficult to make logical changes to improve efficiency. As Gisela relates, Amazon finds it nearly impossible to give credit for a basic improvement suggested by a line worker. Gisela points out some very basic and logical suggestions that she made that were implemented but never acknowledged.

 Amazon has proven to be a phenomenal business in the sense that it began as an online bookseller and early on was often derisively called Amazon.bomb. An article posted June 20, 2023 projects that Amazon will soon surpass Wal Mart as the global leader in the selling of beauty products. While this book will not offer any detailed explanations of how that growth was achieved, it will demonstrate how the worker bees perform to keep the products moving as fast as possible.

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