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Brian Gubernick
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890. Why Bezos Banned PowerPoint: The Six-Page Memo, Silent Reading, and Better
Brian discusses the meeting mechanism Jeff Bezos built at Amazon in 2004, when he banned PowerPoint from senior leadership meetings and replaced it with something almost nobody outside the company was doing: a written narrative memo, read in total silence by everyone in the room ... Show More
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Brian discusses a question Simon Sinek's recent commentary on friendship left him with: why do we build entire industries around romantic relationships and almost nothing around the friendships that carry us through life? Somewhere between building a business, raising a family, a ... Show More
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