From the everything store by brad stone

"I understand what you are aayibg, [jeff bezos] said, but you are completely wrong. Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren't working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more. " 

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"Soon after thanksgiving, predictably, amazon was failing to keep the most popular toys in stock. Kerry Morris, the buyer who joined amazon from Walmart .... Cleaned out the inventory of Pokemon products on the brand newtoysrus.com website and had everything shipped to {amazons warehouse}, exploiting a rivals free-shipping promotion. "Because they were so new to the e-commerce space that year, they really did not have the tools to alert them to us wiping out their inventory until it was too late," Morris says."