The Best Writers Write the Best Narratives

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A good narrative thit's a very data based, an fact base document. And writing good narratives is way harder than making a good power point. The other thing i add about narratives is it does remove a lot of vius from the process. Where you can have a carismatic speaker with a bad idea that convinces your company to do something that you should not.

In this episode from February 2021, early Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr -- in conversation with a16z's Sonal Chokshi -- go beyond the well-known artifacts of Amazon innovation, like the memo and the press release, and share the leadership principles, decision making practices, and operational processes that helped Amazon continue to innovate, invent new products and learn from its mistakes, as it scaled.

It’s all based on their book, Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, drawing from the 27 years combined experience of being in the room where it happened at Amazon.