In the meeting, Bezos was circumspect, Garcia recalled. He seemed to side with Garcia against the plan. But then Wilke convinced him that it was a “two-way door”—Bezos’s phrase for a decision that can always be reversed later, as opposed to “one-way doors,” in which the choice is permanent. He agreed to try it out. Garcia had to “disagree and commit,” Amazon’s lingo for committing to a course of action you oppose.
