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Why don’t they read the memo before the meeting?
by singleshot_ 3y ago
Why don’t they read the memo before the meeting?
- samsin 3y agoYou can’t guarantee everyone will read it, or dedicate the appropriate time and attention to it
- prepend 3y agoI think the reason I remember is because Bezos has meetings all day and doesn’t have time to read all the memos beforehand. Don’t think like an engineer with a few meetings and lots of prep time. Think like super busy people who have no prep time available. Or at least that your meeting isn’t a high enough priority to warrant them prepping.
- singleshot_ 3y agoAs an attorney, I think your second point is the most salient: the participants in a meeting at Amazon care even less than my clients would care about their smallest legal problem. If you wait until the beginning of the meeting to prepare, there is an extremely high risk that someone else in the room is prepared to eat your lunch. Don’t surrender the initiative by being lazy. Fwiw I bet Bezos pre-reads plenty of memos and I doubt very much that his is lazy. The point stands.