# 2 key LEADERSHIP ideas from Amazon's CEO - Business English vocabulary lesson

An episode of [Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616739393), 16 Jun 2025, 30 min.

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Send us Fan Mail If you're a leader or need to talk about leadership at work in English, Amazon's leadership principles are a great place to start. If you use English at work, but you're not a native speaker then the vocabulary, phrases, and grammar is today's podcast will help you to talk about leadership and grow professionally. Today we're discussing the leadership themes of innovation and learning. We'll look at some formal, professional vocabulary, and some informal natural and native sounding words and phrases, as well as examples of how you can use these in real life. Also, if you're studying for the IELTS, TOEFL, or Cambridge English tests and exams then you might find some of the vocabulary in this episode really useful. Book a session with me: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com This podcast is all about helping you to communicate better, in English, at work. I work with international English speakers from around the world who use English, at work, as a second or third language and I hope that I can bring some of the ideas, vocabulary, and grammar, from those sessions, to you in this podcast. Don’t forget that my full time job is helping international professionals who use English at work to improve their communication skills. So, if you need English to do your job but don’t speak it natively then maybe we can work together to help you to achieve your language goals. Book a session with me: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com Support the show Book a coaching session with me at: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com

## Transcript

Welcome back. To the breakout business English podcast. Hi everyone, my name is Chris and I'm a Business English coach. I've worked with over 1,000 non-native English-speaking professionals, from new graduates up to CEOs and government leaders, to help them. Improve their communication skills. Thank you so much for listening today and today's topic is... Is Leadership.So this is our third episode discussing Amazon's leadership principles and I think we're still only about halfway through their list. I did three on an episode a couple of weeks ago and I think I mentioned one on its own.So... If you're trying to grow as a leader or move into a leadership position for the first time, then becoming familiar with Amazon's leadership principles is a great place to start. In today's podcast, we're going to talk about two more of these ideas. And we'll hear some great vocabulary used by Amazon's CEO, Andy Jassy. To talk about these concepts.So. Feel free to take notes and think about how you can start using these ideas and the vocabulary in the work that you do. Let's get started. Our first leadership principle today is to invent And... Simplify. To invent and simplify. Here is how Amazon describes it. They say that leaders expect and require innovation, and invention from their teams. And always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware Look for new ideas from everywhere. And you're not limited by Not Invented Here. As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood. For long periods of time.So this is the guiding principle that Amazon look for in their leaders when it comes to creating new things inside the company. Let's take a listen to some things you might hear at work from a manager who values invention and innovation in their team.The prototype is pretty good, but I think the next iteration has the potential to be really great. The prototyping. Is pretty good. But I think the next iteration has the potential to be really great. I like this idea, but

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