{"id":2956,"date":"2019-09-02T01:34:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2019-08-10T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:42:13","slug":"the-amazon-written-memo-meeting-nothing-new-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/09\/the-amazon-written-memo-meeting-nothing-new-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazon Written Memo Meeting: Nothing New Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jeff Bezos and Amazon have received much praise for their use of written essays at meetings instead of PowerPoint and bullet points. Great, but not new.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slab.com\/blog\/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy\/\">This is a good piece about Amazon&#8217;s use of written memos at meetings<\/a>. Keep the thinking focused. Don&#8217;t waste time. Think. Communicate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excellent. Great. I love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is why I used it back in 2003 on a government project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I doubt I was the first. I know Amazon wasn&#8217;t the first, because I beat Jeff Bezos to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t become rich and famous, and neither did anyone else on the project. We did, however, save the taxpayers a few million dolalrs, and that was a pretty good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Jeff Bezos and Amazon have received much praise for their use of written essays at meetings instead of PowerPoint and bullet points. Great, but not new. This is a good piece about Amazon&#8217;s use of written memos at meetings. Keep the thinking focused. Don&#8217;t waste time. Think. Communicate. Excellent. Great. I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,50,292,5],"tags":[154,172,295,128],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-thinking","category-tools","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-thinking","tag-tools","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}