>> I think it's also important to have a culture of reading, not just writing. That's certainly part of the key at Amazon. Documents are written to be _read_ a

>> I think it's also important to have a culture of reading, not just writing. That's certainly part of the key at Amazon. Documents are written to be _read_ and _used_ in critical decision-making. If you regularly don't read the documents distributed at the beginning of meetings and then ask questions that are clearly answered in those documents, you will be "profoundly unsuccessful" at Amazon. (How's that for a euphemism?)