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2. Use the Amazon memo method 

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is pretty famous for banning 

PowerPoint slides in meetings at Amazon, saying that it 

was, “probably the smartest thing we ever did.” 

However, what many don’t know is what he replaced that 

practice with. Enter: the pre-written brief.  

At Amazon, every meeting starts with each attendee 

silently reading a “six-page, narratively-structured memo,” 

before any discussion begins. 

″[The memo is] supposed to create the context for what 

will then be a good discussion,” Bezos says. Participants in 

the meeting are encouraged to take notes then discuss the 

memo when everyone is finished reading.  

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These memos serve a few key purposes: 

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