The Bezos Blueprint
by Carmine Gallo
Amazon's communication practices: the six-page memo, the banned PowerPoint, the shareholder letters' plain prose, metaphors, and 'working backwards' press releases. Gallo at his most useful because the subject is specific.
Read it if…
you want to write like Amazon's culture demands.
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Skip it if…
you dislike Amazon as an example.
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Three things you will actually use
- Narrative memos beat slides.
- Short words; short sentences.
- Write the press release first.
Do this first
Write your next proposal as a six-page narrative memo.
Our verdict
Amazon's writing rules.
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