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the context and background for your meeting. 

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The purpose and goal of the meeting is clear and 

explicit, ensuring the meeting is necessary. 

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By reading them in the meeting, it ensures 

everyone has read it, even if one of your attendees 

is an executive in dozens of meetings per week. 

In addition to these benefits for meeting attendees, it also 

helps the meeting organizer. It forces whoever writes the 

memo to clarify their thinking, as Bezos encourages staff 

to get feedback on their memos beforehand and to put 

significant effort into creating them. 

Here is an example of some of those rules (originally 

posted by Amazon’s @captaindanny10):  

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As a company now over 25 years old, it’s not surprising 

that Amazon has created some guidelines to help improve 

these memos and guide their team members that you can 

use, too. 

If you’re tired of another meeting filled with Powerpoint 

slides, a memo may be a great thing for you to try. 

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Define the goal of the meeting. List agenda, if needed. Include a 

role for each person who is attending the meeting. Provide a 

summary in advance that gives everyone the background needed 

to fulfill their roll. 

— Mask-Wearin’ Marcus Detry (@MarcusDetry) December 20, 

2019