Eric Siu explains why Amazon banned PowerPoints. The company requires six-page narrative memos instead, believing slides make people lazy and shift the work of understanding onto the audience. Amazon credits this memo process with part of its success.
They don't allow PowerPoints at Amazon. And the reason for that is because PowerPoints are for lazy people, right? It allows the presenter to be lazy and it puts more of the onus on the audience. Their whole thing is you got to write a 6-page narrative if you want to push a thing through. And if we approve it, great. If not, then like, you know, too bad, you're shit out of luck, right? And that's why they're the machine that they are.
