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They see writing not merely as a bureaucratic necessity, but as a creative act with the power to accelerate change through persuasion. To fully harness writing's multiplier effect on their potential, they carve out space for empowering expression that goes beyond mandated reports.
Karina Nguyen • Cultures of writing.
the quality of an organization's output depends on the degree to which it treats writing as an act to give ideas the space to grow and resonate
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
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The Business of Annual Letters
capitalgains.thediff.co
memo from the founder of Carta
How-To-Succeed-At-MrBeast-Production.pdf
drive.google.com
In stellar cultures, writing becomes a mindset for engaging with the world. Ideas evolve from fuzzy to concrete and actionable through writing. For them, writing is not just transactional, but a craft and even an art form to explore ideas and express oneself.
Karina Nguyen • Cultures of writing.
on the link between stellar organizational cultures and writing
Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say?
Surprisingly often they don’t know.
Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?
Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time?
On Writing Well, William Zinsser