Jeff Bezos reveals that company employees 'don't do PowerPoint' or any other slide-oriented presentations. Instead, 'Amazonians' create six-page narrative memos.
PowerPoint is one of the most popular tools for presenting information. But at Amazon, the software program takes a back seat to written memos.
"If we don't, the executives, like high school kids, will try to bluff their way through a meeting," says the CEO at a recent Forum on Leadership."[The memo is] supposed to create the context for what will then be a good discussion." In his latest shareholder letter, Bezos adds that reading these memos taught him the importance of scope. While some memos are well thought-out and carefully crafted, others are poorly written and fall on the other end of the spectrum, he writes.
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