Who executives promote and why (answers from Ethan and EthanGPT)

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Why this topic matters:
Many people think "If I do a great job, I will eventually get promoted." That is wrong and will cost you years of delayed career growth. Instead, you must acknowledge that promotions are a combination of delivering results, reliability, trustworthiness, relationships, and business needs.

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About Ethan Evans
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President after 15 years where he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

​​​​​​​​​​​​-- 70+ patents.

​​​​​​​​​​​​-- Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.

​​​​​​​​​​​​-- Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.

​​​​​​​​​​​​-- Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's (read the story).

​​​​​Ethan has promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.

​​​​​Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.

​​​​​Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.

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