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What I've noticed is that people don't seem to have the attention span to read the document or memo I wrote, and the meeting is so they can get the TL;DR.
by greesil 2y ago
What I've noticed is that people don't seem to have the attention span to read the document or memo I wrote, and the meeting is so they can get the TL;DR.
- dijksterhuis 2y agooh god yeah these people do my head in. i haven’t found a good strategy for them yet.
- greesil 2y agoConstantly passive aggressively say "as per my document" in the meeting. I see the upside of companies that have memo culture.
- rcarmo 2y agoThe Amazon Way used to be for you to send out a memo so that people would be productive at a meeting, and cancel the meeting on the spot if more than a third hadn’t read it or read enough of it.
- greesil 2y ago"used to"? What do they do now?
- Swizec 2y agoIf you can tldr your memo or message, maybe you should write a shorter memo or message. People are busy. Nobody got time for waffle. Get to the point or get out of the way.
- greesil 2y agoRead the book The Mythical Man Month, then work at a big company, and then you'll appreciate the challenges of organizing five different teams to accomplish a large and complex task.