Why Jeff Bezos makes Amazon execs read 6-page memos at the start of each meeting
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Why Jeff Bezos makes Amazon execs read 6-page memos at the start of each meeting
Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it.
Jeff Bezos on meetings and truth-finding:
Meetings at Amazon are unusual. When new people come in, they're a little taken aback because the typical meeting, we'll start with a six-page narratively structured memo and we do study hall. For 30 minutes, we sit there silently together in the meeting and read. Take notes in the margins. And then we disc
... See moreBezos has tossed aside PowerPoint use in staff meetings and instead requires his senior execs to write 4-to-6-page narrative memos. Each memo must clearly state the challenge and objective, outline the possible solutions, and differentiate the proposed solution from what has already been attempted.
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Jeff Bezos on how to delegate some types of decisions (2-way doors), while spending majority of your time & resources on the others (1-way doors):
“Some decisions are consequential and irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. We can call these Type
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