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Brad Stone
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June 28 - July 20, 2021
‘Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.�
Bezos’s counterintuitive point was that coordination among employees wasted time, and that the people closest to problems were usually in the best position to solve them.
‘Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.�
Bezos announced that employees could no longer use such corporate crutches and would have to write their presentations in prose,
Instead, the narratives were passed out and everyone sat quietly reading the document for fifteen minutes � or longer. At the beginning, there was no page limit,
