{"id":3043,"date":"2017-03-27T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2017-03-27T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:26:10","slug":"meetings-structured-around-a-6-page-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/meetings-structured-around-a-6-page-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetings structured around a 6 page memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conorneill.com\/2012\/11\/30\/amazon-staff-meetings-no-powerpoint\/\">Quoting from Jeff Bezos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of the room and presents with a PowerPoint presentation, some type of slide show. \u00a0In our view you get very little information, you get bullet points. \u00a0This is easy for the presenter, but difficult for the audience. \u00a0And so instead, all of our meetings are structured around a 6 page narrative memo&#8230;. If you have a traditional ppt presentation, executives interrupt. \u00a0If you read the whole 6 page memo, on page 2 you have a question but on on page 4 that question is answered.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to use this technique as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting from Jeff Bezos: \u201cThe traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. 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