Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at Town Hall: The way to get ahead at Amazon is not to …

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees that building large teams and personal fiefdoms is not the path to advancement at the company, emphasizing instead that the e-commerce giant rewards those who accomplish more with fewer resources. The comments came during a recent all-hands meeting as Jassy continues his push to reduce management layers and bureaucracy across the organization.

According to a recording of the Tuesday meeting obtained by Business Insider, Jassy stated explicitly: “The way to get ahead at Amazon is not to go accumulate a giant team and fiefdom. There’s no award for having a big team.” He reminded staff that some of AWS’s most successful products began with teams of only about a dozen people.