When Jeff Bezos gathers his executive team in Seattle, the entire meeting is structured around a six-page narrative memo that executives are responsible to write. Every person who enters the meeting spends the first half-hour quietly reading, and the discussion begins only once everyone has finished the memo. In an interview Bezos likened the experience to study hall, but he believed that making executives compose their ideas into a narrative format forced them to articulate those ideas more clearly than they would with PowerPoint slides.