Jeff Bezos: This is the ‘smartest thing we ever did’ at Amazon

Metadata

• Author: Taylor Locke
• Full Title: Jeff Bezos: This is the ‘smartest thing we ever did’ at Amazon
• Category: #articles
• Document Tags: productivity
• Summary: Jeff Bezos has a nontraditional management style at Amazon. And according to Bezos, Amazon's twist on meeting structure is the "smartest thing we ever did."
• URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/jeff-bezos-this-is-the-smartest-thing-we-ever-did-at-amazon.html

Highlights

• To replace the PowerPoint presentations, Bezos created a new way to hold meetings: Meetings start with each attendee sitting and silently reading a “six-page, narratively-structured memo” for about the first 30 minutes of the meeting. (View Highlight)
  • Note: Memos over presentations.