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Dive Deep.

Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdotes differ.

No task is beneath them.

You could argue that there is a bit of tension between the strategic part of Think Big

and the detail orientation of Dive Deep.

And oftentimes people will say, well, which do you want?

You know, do you want the strategic part or do you want the detailed part?

And the answer, of course, is yes.

We want both.

Amazon is unique from other companies in that we expect our people to not only be strategic,

but to be willing to roll up their sleeves and be great at getting into the details.

There are so many people who can fill up loads of whiteboards around office rooms with great ideas

but who don't know how to get the details of those ideas right

and the reality is

that the details of any idea are what matters most

that's what people actually see what customers actually see it's part of by the way why the narrative format

that we write papers and communicate in in the working backwards documents are

so useful because it's you know whereas in a powerpoint you can speak at a super high level

and you don't have to get into the details, it is hard to fake the details in a narrative.

And getting the details right really matters.

Every product, every business that I have ever been a part of

or seen in Amazon have been made or broken by how great we were at getting the details right for customers.

Good leaders find mechanisms to inspect and audit the details and to understand anecdotes.

And the right teams understand that the leaders who are looking at what they're doing

and working with them on the details are doing

so to help them be right a lot and achieve great results for customers.

And then the other piece is that with anecdotes, there are oftentimes, especially at our size, where you have these big metrics.

I'll take an example.

If you ever look at operational performance metrics, things like performance against service level agreements or error rates or latency,

they're measured across really large numbers.

And they can look perfectly reasonable.

And then when you actually get into the details of it, you find, well, you hear this anecdote that this customer was unhappy about something.

Or you have a friend who told you that this didn't work out for them.

Or you get an email from a customer who says, why is this the case?

And when you actually follow those anecdotes, you find that there actually is a problem

that may not be showing up in the broader metric because we cover so many people, they don't register in the metric.

But at our scale, even a 1 % impact or a half a percent impact is millions of people.

So follow the anecdotes, inspect the details, because it's where you often find the real issues that can impact customers.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “"Dive Deep" Leadership Principle Explained by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy”. Las palabras que más se repiten: detail, anecdote, customer, metric, strategic. Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 513 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:07. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 165 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
metric adjetivo	/ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/	métrico
strategic adjetivo	/stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/	estratégico
narrative sustantivo	/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/	narrativa
audit sustantivo	/ˈɔːdɪt/	auditoría, auditaje
inspect verbo	/ɪnˈspɛkt/	inspeccionar
format sustantivo	/ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/	formato
argue verbo	/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/	argüir, argumentar
whereas	/(h)wɛɹˈæz/	mientras que (locution)
connect verbo	/kəˈnɛkt/	conectar, empalmar
mechanism sustantivo	/ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/	mecanismo
beneath	/bɪˈniːθ/	bajo de, abajo de
tension sustantivo	/ˈtɛnʃən/	tensión
operational adjetivo	/ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/	operacional
unhappy adjetivo	/ʌnˈhæpi/	infeliz
orientation sustantivo	/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/	orientación

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
fill up verbo	llenar, repletar
roll up verbo	apelotonar, remangar

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have ever been · have been made
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	people who can · friend who told

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, they're, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, operational /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/, orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, operational /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: strategic /stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/, sleeve /sliv/, skeptical /ˈskɛptɪkəl/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, sleeve /sliv/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, oftentimes /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como metric, strategic, narrative.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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