Jeff Bezos admits Amazon has 'the weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter'

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• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explained during an on-stage interview on Friday the strange meetings Amazon holds.
• Every meeting requires a well-crafted six-page memo which the whole room sits and reads at the start of the meeting.
• Bezos banned PowerPoint years ago and explained why the memo-driven meeting is far superior.

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If you go to work as an executive at Amazon, no matter what your expertise, you will be required to become a good writer, and a good reader, in order to lead the meetings necessary to do your job.

And Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fully admits that this will likely be 'weird,' he explained during an on-stage interview at the George Bush Presidential Center on Friday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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