The real power of the Jeff Bezos memo and how you can put it into practice (even if you don’t have any meetings) | by Greg Dickens | The Startup | Medium
Get smarter at building your thing. Follow to join The Startup’s +8 million monthly readers & +772K followers. Follow publication Top highlight 479 Listen Share There has been a lot of buzz around Jeff Bezos’ recent annual letter to Amazon shareholders. One of the topics that has received the most attention is how he insists on a no PowerPoint policy at Amazon: We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. Much of the attention around this has been focused on how he uses these memos to run meetings and how every meeting starts off with everyone silently reading the memo to be discussed. This is to be sure that everyone actually has an understanding of the topic before discussion begins and in his words to ensure that executives don’t “bluff through it like high school students.” (which may be surprising to people who have never worked in a big company before, but trust me, this happens a lot more o