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If you're running a business with high margins -- watch out.\nBy Adam Lashinsky, senior editor-at-large\nFORTUNE -- Jeff Bezos likes to read. That's a dog-bites-man revelation if ever there was one, considering that Bezos is the cerebral founder and chief executive of a $100 billion empire built on books. More revealing is that the Amazon CEO's fondness for the written word drives one of his primary, and peculiar, tools for managing his company: Meetings of his \"S-team\" of senior executives begin with participants quietly absorbing the written word. Specifically, before any discussion begins, members of the team -- including Bezos -- consume six-page printed memos in total silence for as long as 30 minutes. (Yes, the e-ink purveyor prefers paper. Ironic, no?) They scribble notes in the margins while the authors of the memos wait for Bezos and his minions to finish reading.\nAmazon (\u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=AMZN\" \u0014AMZN\u0015) executives call these documents \"narratives,\" and even Bezos realizes that for the uninitiated -- and fans of the PowerPoint presentation -- the process is a bit odd. \"For new employees, it's a strange initial experience,\" he tells Fortune. \"They're just not accustomed to sitting silently in a room and doing study hall with a bunch of executives.\" Bezos says the act of communal reading guarantees the group's undivided attention. Writing a memo is an even more important skill to master. \"Full sentences are harder to write,\" he says. \"They have verbs. The paragraphs have topic sentences. There is no way to write a six-page, narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.\"\nMORE: \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/companies/2012/11/16/business-person-of-the-year.fortune/index.html\" \u0014Businessperson of the year - the full list\u0015\nJeff Bezos has always done things his own way, whether he's ignoring Wall Street's pleas for \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/25/technology/apple-earnings/index.html\" \u0014consistent earnings growth\u0015 or requiring his top people to construct artfully written missives or launching seemingly disparate businesses -- all at razor-thin margins. Only there's nothing random about Bezos's strategy. Indeed, like the memos he makes his managers write, his moves are driven by clear thinking and a cohesive vision, even if it takes a while for rivals to figure out Amazon's motives -- at which point it may be too late.\nBezos is the ultimate disrupter: He has upended the book industry and displaced electronics merchants. Now Amazon is pushing into everything from couture retailing and feature-film production to iPad-worthy tablet manufacturing. Amazon even sells \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/22/aws/\" \u0014ultracheap database software\u0015 for businesses. (Oracle (\u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=ORCL\" \u0014ORCL\u0015), take note.) He's willing to take risks and lose money, yet investors have embraced him, pushing Amazon's stock up 30% so far this year. And even as Amazon expands and experiments, Bezos remains zealous about delivering a good customer experience. For all these reasons and more, Fortune has named Bezos its \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/companies/2012/11/16/business-person-of-the-year.fortune/2.html\" \u00142012 Businessperson of the Year\u0015.\nIt's not just Fortune that deems Bezos praiseworthy. He counts among his fans Amazon's sharpest competitors and a legion of entrepreneurial imitators. \"Jeff is a manic competitor, a delightful human being, and a trusted supplier,\" says Netflix (\u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=NFLX\" \u0014NFLX\u0015) CEO Reed Hastings, whose company is enduring a full-frontal assault from \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/07/the-truth-about-amazons-8-monthly-plan/\" \u0014Amazon's instan","cbCaiacNTkjH6dNS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiacNTkjH6dNS","docx",25130,6,"English","# S-team narratives and memo culture\n## Written-word habits and clear thinking\n## Bezos’s disruption strategy and expansion","[{\"question\":\"What is the “S-team” meeting routine described in the article?\",\"answer\":\"Senior executives quietly read six-page printed memos in silence for up to 30 minutes before discussion begins, while Bezos and others take notes in the margins.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Bezos emphasize writing and memo structure?\",\"answer\":\"He argues full sentences, verbs, and topic sentences in paragraphs force clear thinking, making it difficult to write narrative-structured memos without real clarity.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article characterize Bezos’s approach to business disruption?\",\"answer\":\"It portrays him as upending industries such as books and electronics while expanding into new areas, backed by willingness to take risks and accept near-term losses to pursue a strong customer experience.\"}]","Amazon's Jeff Bezos - The Ultimate Disrupter | DOCX"]