1. Why do you think Jeff Bezos bans PowerPoint slides in meetings?
2. What do you think the purpose is of team members silently reading reports together?
3. What do you think could be the major benefits of this approach to meetings? What do you think could be the major drawbacks?

Jeff Bezos is one of the most successful businesspersons of our era. He started Amazon in 1993 and has turned it into one of the most important companies in the world. Bezos leads and manages with a focus on effective decision making. As a result, he insists on carefully written reports. In fact, he bans PowerPoint slides in meetings. Prior to a meeting, someone on the team writes a six-page, carefully crafted report. At the beginning of meetings, the teams remain silent as they spend up to 30 minutes reading and evaluating the report. Then, they use the memo contents as the basis of their discussion. The report effectively serves as the agenda. The Amazon approach is slightly unconventional. Yet, it's fundamentally no different than all high-performing companies in this sense: Decisions are made based on well-developed, data-driven reports