Jeff Bezos has a non-traditional management style at Amazon, and he says Amazon’s unique twist on meeting structure is the “smartest thing we ever did.”
“Many, many years ago, we outlawed PowerPoint presentations at Amazon,” Bezos said at the Bush Center’s Forum on Leadership in 2018. “And it’s probably the smartest thing we ever did.”
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.
″[The memo is] supposed to create the context for what will then be a good discussion,” Bezos said.
Those participating are encouraged to take notes, and after the reading period is over, they discuss the memo.
Bezos says the reason for the group reading is that “executives will bluff their way through the meeting as if they’ve read the memo because we’re busy and so you’ve got to actually carve out the time for the memo to get read.”
"Jeff Bezos: This is the ‘smartest thing we ever did’ at Amazon". CNBC. October 15, 2019.
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