Jeff has talked about this in public, "good executives will cheat, they're busy they won't take the time to pre-read". I have found some leaders I can do "off

Jeff has talked about this in public, "good executives will cheat, they're busy they won't take the time to pre-read". I have found some leaders I can do "off line" with, but in general it's because their calendar and mine just don't overlap properly for a couple weeks and I want them to give me feedback earlier. I've been at Amazon 3 years, 6 months, and 7 days (thanks phonetool). In that time I've only seen a couple pre-read meetings, and a couple "offline review" (still in your calendar). Most of the pre-read meetings are less effective, they usually happen because of calendar pressure and the need for rapid decision on a topic. The one thing I don't like about WFH is that we sometimes "lose" people, they come to the meeting but float off into email, chat or whatever. When I first started we'd have 20 people in a room, laptops closed, reading, you could hear a pin drop. And usually I knew it was time to start the discussion because people looked up from their doc to see if others were done. I miss these meetings because the focus was amazing. To have all these people who I really respect read my doc and give me their 100% undivided attention is awesome. The nice thing about WFH is sometimes we spawn a bit of related topic in the chat, however it can be really hard to keep the debate going while the chat runs across a different thread but related to the overall topic.