Narrative structure is the way forward in the modern meeting environment.

Example of amazon narrative memo. Amazons shift away from presentation culture reflects this. You want these leadership team to be engaged in reviewing the. And so instead all of our meetings are structured around a 6 page narrative memo.

The Six Page Narratives are typically consumed in Amazons infamous Reading Meetings where you have a number of senior leadership people who take the first 10-15 minutes of a meeting to read a Narrative or PR-FAQ before discussing. This is easy for the presenter but difficult for the audience. The Amazon memo is an example of how companies can sometimes rely too much on managerial innovations.

So the future might be like this. These innovations can become the standard way of doing business but which have unseen downsides. I like the example that Diane Boerstler gave.

And it was a result of weekly meetings four hours every week with the S-team Jeffs direct reports where 2-3 teams would come in and give either updates on their business it could be a decision that needed to be made or investigating new areas to go into. What Jeff Bezos found was that these tools were limiting high quality deep thinking that leads to better decisions and ideas. Der Grund warum Amazon seine Topmanager solche Memos schreiben lässt deckt sich mit dem Grund warum wir Bücher schreiben.

This can take up to 30 minutes. Does someone have an example of the Amazon 6 page narrative. A simple narrative structure for a six-page memo.

The senior leadership in these meetings are generally very smart and have years of experience. 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. Was wir deshalb hochspannend finden ist dass in den Führungskräftemeetings bei Amazon in denen Entscheidungen getroffen werden das Narrative Memo zum Einsatz kommt.