Amazon has a unique approach to business meetings. The key presenters at the meeting must draft a narrative of the topic under consideration into a document of no more than six pages. The meeting begins with everyone reading the narrative, which becomes the shared experience that facilitates the discussion.

Imagine, as a new employee at Amazon, you are on point to deliver a presentation to your new peers during a training session. Your assigned topic is to defend the economic rationale embedded in this statement by Peter Drucker: "The business that fails to produce an adequate profit imperils both the integrity of the resources entrusted in its care and the economy's capacity to grow. It is untrue to its trust." As part of the training, you must offer your presentation as a narrative memo.