Failure tolerance is measured in four levels: (1) failure = career-limiting move (CLM), (2) we tolerate risk but don't really (lip service), (3) tolerance in innovation/sandbox areas only, (4) pervasive and measured; Amazon asks each team quarterly: How many experiments did you run? How many succeeded? How many failed? Insufficient experiments = trouble.

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Salim Ismail

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level four is pervasive across the company and measured. So for example, Amazon for every team in in Amazon is asking how many experiments did you run this quarter?

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Building a business for the Future?OpenExO
Created: 8/13/2026, 10:25:00 AM

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