Instead Amazonians create six-page narrative memos that are read at the beginning of each meetingkind of like a study hall session he says.

Example of amazon narrative memo. Was wir deshalb hochspannend finden ist dass in den Führungskräftemeetings bei Amazon in denen Entscheidungen getroffen werden das Narrative Memo zum Einsatz kommt. Its so easy to fool both yourself and your audience with an oral presentation or powerpoint slides. By Ben Bashaw February 5 2019.

Amazons shift away from presentation culture reflects this. Here is an example of a simple narrative structure that will really help in the development and understanding of a memo assisting decision-makers to work out what might come next. A typical memo for a new product comes in the form of an imaginary press release for the service backed by a question and answer brief written in a.

This has been the subject of much. The example I am going to share is from what we call an operational plan document. Though Bezos admits that silently.

Das Amazon Narrative Memo. And so instead all of our meetings are structured around a 6 page narrative memo. A simple narrative structure for a six-page memo.

The company recognises that dry presentations dont help. This ensures that everyone is up to speed on the meeting topic. This is easy for the presenter but difficult for the audience.

The senior leadership in these meetings are generally very smart and have years of experience. I think if you combine that that this article from All Things Distributed 1 you have a good example plus context for trying it out on your own. What Jeff Bezos found was that these tools were limiting high quality deep thinking that leads to better decisions and ideas.